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A few years ago, the Red Sox front office decided to experiment with Bill James’ closer-by-committee theory, and we all know how THAT worked out for them. This season, Theo & Company have decided to pursue the concept of run prevention as opposed to run production — and over the course of the next several months we will learn how THAT will all learn how THAT will work out for them. It says here that it will work out just fine. The Red Sox essentially traded Jason Bay, Alex Gonzalez and Mike Lowell (who is still with the team but presumably in a greatly reduced role) for Mike Cameron, Marco Scutaro and Adrian Beltre… and then they used the payroll saved by saying goodbye to Bay to secure the services of starting pitcher John Lackey. It seems inarguable the Red Sox off ...

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