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Silverman: Craig Kimbrel grateful after ‘unbelievable’ treatment of infant daughter

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“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose, under heaven...” – Ecclesiastes

FORT MYERS – The meaning of faith and the power of prayer seldom make public appearances during spring training.

On Monday, Craig Kimbrel brought both back to Red Sox camp.

After a nearly three-week absence to attend to the second of three scheduled heart surgeries for his daughter Lydia, who is barely 4-1/2 months old, Kimbrel walked onto a back field in his uniform, dug his cleats into the moist clay, bent over and cocked his right arm into its familiar haunted bear-hug hang before rearing back to unleash scorching fastballs past hapless Red Sox minor-leaguers.