Red Sox will travel to Japan as scheduled

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Boston Red Sox have resolved the dispute over paying coaches for the team's trip to Japan and the team will fly to Tokyo later today, as planned.

Manager Terry Francona and his players were upset after learning staff members were not going to get a $40,000 stipend the players are being paid. Enough so that the team voted unanimously to refuse to take the field for their last exhibition game in Florida and threatened to boycott the trip overseas. Today's game against the Blue Jays eventually got under way an hour late.

The Red Sox open their season with a pair of games in Tokyo against the Oakland Athletics.

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