This Day in History: 2000-11-24

November 24, 2005: The Boston Red Sox engineer a major trade with the Florida Marlins exchanging prospects Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez and two others for pitcher Josh Beckett, third baseman Mike Lowell, and reliever Guillermo Mota; the trade comes less than four weeks after GM Theo Epstein’s “leave of absence.”