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Signs say Ramirez plans to stay with Sox

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- In good news for Red Sox fans, developments today indicate that slugger Manny Ramirez no longer wants to be traded and isn't going to play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.

The team's principal owner John Henry, speaking to reporters at the team's spring training base in Fort Myers, said, "We want to support the World Baseball Classic, but it's a plus he's coming here on March 1 and not playing in that.''

As long as Ramirez doesn't change his mind, that means he will be in spring training with the Red Sox beginning Wednesday.

Henry refused to comment on whether Ramirez was still demanding a trade. But former Yankee Enrique Wilson, a good friend of Ramirez's who is in Red Sox camp as a non-roster invitee, said that Ramirez had recently told him he wanted to play in Boston.

-- Journal sports writer Steven Krasner

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