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Cockcroft: Bold Predictions for 2007

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Friday, March 23, 2007

The Red Sox are simply no fun. In one of our mid-January podcasts, colleague Eric Karabell and I were discussing the team's recent signing of Joel Pineiro, presumably to groom the troubled right-hander as its new closer. At the time, I scoffed at the idea, and when pressed to pick Boston's 2007 team leader in saves, I picked, what seemed at the time, a most unlikely candidate: Jonathan Papelbon. And on Thursday, sure enough, the Red Sox converted that bold prediction into a predictable reality, ...

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