Marcus Walden is a new pitcher and is rocketing up the depth chart

Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsHeading into the season, one of my biggest pet peeves about the conversations surrounding this Red Sox roster was the search for the next Ryan Brasier. Brasier, of course, came out of nowhere to play a key role in Boston’s bullpen in October and is one of the top two arms in the ‘pen now. His journey was amazing, and between that great story and the fact that the Red Sox bullpen so clearly lacked depth, everyone was on the search for the next guy. That conversation bothered me because it diluted what made Brasier’s story so special: It doesn’t happen every year! It’s sort of like the overrated/underrated conversation where, once you mention a guy as a potential next Ryan Brasier he no longer qualifies. So, yeah, I was a bit of a curmudgeon on that topic.

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