FORT MYERS – Grateful that his infant daughter Lydia is on the mend after heart surgery in Boston, closer Craig Kimbrel returned to the Red Sox today.
“We’ll be in and out of Boston Children’s Hospital the rest of her life but for this stay, hopefully a couple more weeks,” said Kimbrel after throwing a sharp round of batting practice to minor-leaguers on a back field. “She’s in the recovery process but life-threatening wise, she’s in a good place that I can be down here. It’s really just taking care of her needs and getting her off some of her meds and getting her back feeding out of the bottle and that’s what the next few weeks are looking for us at the hospital.