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...Pitching: A strength. If Bill Larson continues to improve, he'll be all-league next year. Billy Doyle is a battler, Greg Brown a flame-thrower, and John Sorich's knuckle-curve a dazzling out pitch from the bullpen...
With Bob Stanley and Mark Clear set in the bullpen, Burgmeier (Boston's most effective reliever last season at 5-4, 2.00), Dick Drago, Luis Aponte, Mike Smithson, Bill Campbell, Skip Lockwood, and Wim Remmerswaal (who is out of options) will, barring a trade, struggle for the final slot...
...pitched fairly well in limited action with the Red Sox last year, and plenty of people seem impressed ("If anyone is standing out right now it's Crawford and Aponte."--Gary Allenson). Still, with Drago, Campbell and perhaps Lockwood, is there really room for another righthander in the bullpen...
...matter of fact, "Stanley, set in the bullpen, says, "They all look good. I think we're going to be pretty good this year, there's a good attitude...
...remnant of the days when ball parks didn't all come from the Riverfront-Three River cookie cutter. Compared to left field, center in Fenway is the Wild West, a vast (almost 430 ft. to straight away center) and mysterious (a high wall that tapers down to the tiny bullpen barrier) piece of real estate. But Lynn studied it and had become its master. (If you're unimpressed, think about how many great centerfielders the Sox have had over the years. Not many.) After completing his fifth year in centerfield, his great catches--those no-one-else-but-Lynn-could...