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As they say, you can count on three things in life:
Death,
Taxes, and
Inept Red Sox Medical Attention. As we predicted,
reliever Carson Smith has landed on the disabled list with a "flexor tendon strain" of his pitching arm. The mainstream media says the team has "dodged a bullet"—since it's not a trip to Alabama for
Tommy John surgery. Really? First of all, who's to say that in a week's time the crack Sox medical staff won't re-evaluate things and decide it
is a tear requiring surgery? Anyone want to take bets on that? Second, even if Smith returns quickly (3 or 4 weeks), his presence in the late-inning bullpen parade will be missing—putting added pressure on the ridiculously over-used
Junichi Tazawa,
Koji Uehara and closer
Craig Kimbrel. Is this "dodging a bullet"?
