For the Red Sox will good things come in small packages for 2017? The big focus is usually on the big names that will impact the team such as the potential of stripping away free agent Edwin Encarnacion from Toronto. Sometimes it is the small names that can a significant impact far greater than anyone anticipated.
Three names pop into my rather blank slate of a mind, and they go back to 2013. The first is Koji Uehara, who was signed to add depth to a bullpen and was considered a good, but not an impact signing.