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Red Sox Injury News: John Lackey, Andrew Bailey

Found December 24, 2012 on MLB Injury News: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: John Lackey,  Adam LaRoche
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox,  Washington Nationals
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The Boston Red Sox are busy re-tooling their ball club this winter.  However, they have returning players from the 2012 team that can contribute if they can stay healthy.  Here are your injury updates for the Red Sox. John Lackey was drawing some trade interest earlier this winter, but that seems to have died down as the Red Sox made it clear they wanted to see what he could do in 2013.  Lackey missed the entire 2012 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery.   Andrew Bailey missed most of the 2012 season with a thumb injury.  He was supposed to be the Sox' replacement for Jonathan Papelbon.  However, Papelbon went on to have a successful year in Philadelphia while Boston was left to scramble to find viable closer options.  Bailey is expected to be healthy in 2013, but he will not be their closer.  As ESPN Boston points out in their State of the Sox piece, the club will use newly acquired Joel Hanrahan as their closer.  This would leave Bailey as a potential set-up...
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