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While questions regarding Tim Wakefield's age and Daisuke Matsuzaka's durability continue to swirl around the Boston Red Sox during the middle stages of spring training, new acquisition John Lackey has quietly gone about his business. Putting up goose eggs. Lackey arrived to much fanfare but has managed to slide into the background during a spring training where the hot topics have included a perceived lack of punch on the offensive side and the battle for the back end of the rotation. But Lackey's effort, though quiet, is certainly significant—for in Lackey the Red Sox have a third hurler to join Josh Beckett and Jon Lester to form a trio of pitchers atop the rotation that nobody in baseball can top. Thus far he's certainly answered the call. Obviously spring training numbers are m ...

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