As Emperor Palpatine would say, the Red Sox bullpen construction appears to be “complete” and the relief corps is now “fully operational”.  Boston has agreed to terms with Dan Wheeler (I described him here a few days ago).

Right now, the Red Sox bullpen is looking like this:

Jonathan Papelbon, RHP
Dan Bard, RHP
Bobby Jenks, RHP
Dan Wheeler, RHP
Scott Atchison, RHP
Tim Wakefield, RHP
Obligatory Lefty, LHP

“Obligatory Lefty” will be one out of a group of Rich Hill, Felix Doubront, Lenny DiNardo, and Andrew Miller.  It probably won’t be decided until late March, but I’ll make a very premature prediction: Rich Hill makes the team, Felix Doubront joins the rotation in Pawtucket in an effort to develop him as a starting pitcher, Lenny DiNardo carpools with Doubront to Pawtucket, and Andrew Miller is released during Spring Training.

3 Responses to “Sox Sign Dan Wheeler, Bullpen Looks Decent”

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2. Lauren says:

   12/21/2010 at 6:26 pm

   Looks like you and Peter Abraham have the same ideas :)
   http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2010/12/epstein_papelbo.html?p1=Upbox_links
3. Martin says:

   12/21/2010 at 7:06 pm

   The signing of Rich Hill is a very underrated in my opinion, but if we still had John Farrell, I think he could work wonders with hill. Feel like he will surprise a lot of people.