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Red Sox may have the Wright stuff for 2016

The central focus in the Red Sox pitching department is to upgrade across the board. The various potential trades, free agents and holdovers have been mentioned with their real or perceived liabilities. The same applies to the relief staff that had a dismal season. Names have been tossed around, but one seems to have slipped under the radar for options – Steven Wright.

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Wright’s performance for 2015 was certainly not in the pitching stratosphere of Eduardo Rodriguez, but the 30-year-old right-hander, who is one of the few practitioner of the knuckleball, had a respectable rookie season.