FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) – Boston Red Sox minority owner Tom Werner prefers that players receive their World Series rings on the day of their home opener April 11 against the New York Yankees.

“There’s a lot of debate about the proper time to do it,” he said Monday, “but I think the fans deserve to see it on opening day, but that’s just one man’s opinion.”

He said he planned to meet Tuesday with principal owner John Henry and president Larry Lucchino and expected a decision soon. Henry has said the timing of the ceremony could depend on when the rings are ready.

The team has received numerous suggestions from inside and outside the organization, executive vice president for public affairs Charles Steinberg said. They include distributing the rings at a charitable fund-raiser.

Werner said rings will be distributed to about 500 organization employees and that Red Sox research shows that championship rings were given out at a home opener only once. Curt Schilling has told the club he thinks they should be presented before Boston’s home opener.

“We’ll focus on it and the fans will be very pleased with the solution,” Werner said.

He also said the ceremony would be done tastefully and would not be perceived as an attempt to rub it into the Yankees, whom the Red Sox defeated in the American League Championship Series.

“The Yankees can always sit in the clubhouse,” Werner said. “It’s not going to be a very long ceremony, so we care about doing things in a first-class fashion and we’ll do it appropriately.”

Young arm

Terry Francona was impressed with the way lefty David Wells threw off the mound Monday, although he got the 41-year-old pitcher’s age wrong.

“He might be 42. There’s no way his arm’s 42,” Francona said. “That’s the cleanest arm action I’ve ever seen in my life.”

He said Wells threw 55 pitches.

All hands on deck

Francona said he expects all the players to be in camp in time for Tuesday afternoon’s first full-squad workout.

Before that, he’ll hold a team meeting which could last more than a half hour and will feature comments by him, Henry, Lucchino and general manager Theo Epstein.