Red Sox offseason overview - with the Boston Globe's Gordon Edes
From 2002-2004, there wasn’t a more dominating reliever in baseball, as Gagne saved 152 games in three seasons for the Dodgers. But in the last two seasons, because of two elbow operations -- Tommy John tendon transfer surgery and a nerve removal -- and then back surgery last July, Gagne has saved a total of nine games, 1 in 2006.
3. Eric Gagne
From 2002-2004, there wasn’t a more dominating reliever in baseball, as Gagne saved 152 games in three seasons for the Dodgers. But in the last two seasons, because of two elbow operations -- Tommy John tendon transfer surgery and a nerve removal -- and then back surgery last July, Gagne has saved a total of nine games, 1 in 2006.
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