When the Boston Red Sox picked up Bobby Jenks, they were hoping he could continue his 2010 return to form after a terrible 2009 season and provided the team with another arm for the late innings. Instead, Jenks has hardly pitched at all; he had two long trips to the DL and required surgery on his back in September. Various sources are now reporting that the righty needed a second surgical procedure and will miss the beginning of Spring Training.
This last news reduces the already slim chance that Jenks would be a positive contributor this season in Boston. Jenks as been erratic even in the best of times. In 2007, his best season with the Chicago White Sox, Jenks struck out 7.78 hitters per nine and walked just 1.80 while getting a huge number of groundball (53.3%), numbers that you would expect from a pitcher like Roy Halladay. He was then coming off a year where he had a K/9 rate of 10.33 and a walk rate of 4.00. Those are also very good numbers, but much more like Jon Lester tha...
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