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Mike Greenwell, the longtime Boston Red Sox outfielder and two-time All-Star, has died. He was 62.

The Red Sox Hall of Famer passed away Thursday, his wife, Tracy Greenwell, confirmed to WINK, a radio station in Lee County, Florida. ESPN reported, citing the Boston Globe, that Mike Greenwell had medullary thyroid cancer.

"With a heavy heart, I lost my best friend today," Tracy Greenwell wrote on social media. "It was Mike’s time to be an angel. At 10:30 a.m. in Boston’s General Hospital. We are forever grateful for the life he has given us."

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Red Sox Hall of Famer Mike Greenwell. "The Gator" spent his entire career in a Red Sox uniform and was a beloved fixture of Fenway and Fort Myers, the Boston Red Sox organization wrote on X

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