With Matt Lindstrom's tentative hold on the closer role, this Verducci article on a Boston bullpen experiment has some lessons-learned for the Marlins...
“By the end of spring training we will have one [closer] and we will have guys in defined roles,” Boston GM Theo Epstein says. “And by the end of the year, who knows who the closer might be? It might be some kid who gets put in that role on the second day of the season, like [Jon] Papelbon last year, or somebody from outside the organization, or somebody who started the year in Double A. We don’t know.”
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What Boston won’t do is repeat the mistake it made to open the 2003 season, when it thought a bullpen could be run with interchangeable parts. Read more
