The Boston Red Sox fans, the media, and management are vaguely familiar with John Lackey since Lackey spent four-plus seasons in Boston toiling for around $15 Million a season. I doubt if any livable wage discussions center on the fiscally downtrodden of baseball.
Lackey had two careers in Boston that had a demarcation line that separated them and that line also appears as a scar since Lackey went under the scalpel and had some wing repair that cost a season. Prior to being on the DL list, there was another list in which Lackey found himself – the failure list.