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Dombrowski: Red Sox hope to add another closer to go with Koji Uehara

As of Tuesday, Koji Uehara is expected to be the Red Sox’ closer in 2016, a season he’ll begin as a 41-year-old. But the Red Sox are looking for other options, too.

President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said the Sox view Uehara as a capable closer, but “who knows what will happen?”

“I’m also concerned if the same thing happens this year, if we have an injury, [Junichi] Tazawa is much more comfortable pitching the eighth inning instead of the ninth inning,” Dombrowski said. “As you know he mixed and matched and Robbie Ross did a good job for us.