Following a tumultuous off-season full of unneeded speculation and endless articles dissecting every angle of the Red Sox bullpen, and which one of our pickups or mainstays would fit himself into that closer’s role, the young man who dominated in 2006 will be the man again in 2007. As fans, we do not know whether this might have been the plan all along, that unless somebody emerged as a top-flight bullpen arm during the spring or the market for Cordero dropped drastically, Papelbon was still going to be the closer. I
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