Fansided · Mar 7, 2018
Red Sox may not need to add another lefty-handed reliever
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora isn’t worried about the lack of left-handed relievers in his bullpen because it doesn’t take a southpaw to get a lefty out.
A long held notion in baseball is that a bullpen needs a tough left-handed reliever to lock down lefty sluggers late in games. Is having a lefty-specialist a prerequisite for a successful bullpen? Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora doesn’t think so.
