BOSTON -- With one week until the trade deadline, the Boston Red Sox’]s idea of relief was seeing closer Craig Kimbrel throw 25 pitches off a mound only two weeks after undergoing minor surgery on his left knee. It was such an encouraging sight, in fact, that president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski all but called off the search for bullpen help.
"I think our bullpen will be fine," Dombrowski said Monday before the Red Sox opened a three-game series against his former team, the Detroit Tigers, at Fenway Park. "I know people keep saying we've got to add somebody, but they forget we're getting Kimbrel back and that we just got [Junichi] Tazawa back.