Mike Lowell Has Come Full Circle as Member of Boston Red Sox

Posted: 3rd January 2010 by Sean Kennedy in MLB
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By now, Mike Lowell's 2005 acquisition by the Red Sox has become a sort of local folklore. Lowell was supposed to be the "dead weight" the Florida Marlins dumped on the Red Sox in November 2005 in order to procure Josh Beckett. Lowell was under contract for $9 million in each of the next two seasons and was coming off a career-worst season.á For the promise that Becket provided, the Sox parted ways with their No. 1 prospect, Hanley Ramirez, and assumed Lowell's weighty contract, hoping he would return to form at Fenway. That bet worked out well for both the Red Sox and Lowell, who turned out to be much more than just dead weight or a contract dump.á In 2006, his first year with the Sox, Lowell played in 153 games and rebounded soundly, batting .284 with 20 homers, 80 RBI, and ...

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