Pawtucket Red Sox Will Move To Worcester After 2020

Pawtucket Red Sox:

The Pawtucket Red Sox today signed a Letter of Intent to build an innovative downtown ballpark in Worcester, Massachusetts that would be scheduled to open in 2021. ...

The design and construction of the ballpark would be overseen by [PawSox Chairman Larry] Lucchino and Janet Marie Smith, who ... together oversaw a decade of improvements to Fenway Park, starting in 2002. ...

The PawSox will continue to play at 77-year-old McCoy Stadium the next two years.

WCVB:

"We love the PawSox in Rhode Island, but I understand that Larry felt that this was a good thing ... to move it to Worcester," [Red Sox chairman Tom] Werner told reporters at a charitable event. ...

Officials are expected to announce that the team will be renamed the WooSox.