Timlin to return in 2008

Mike Timlin will return to the Red Sox in 2008, having agreed to a $3 million one-year deal with the team.

Have to say I’m pleased with this one. Getting a decent price on a relief arm to match Timlin’s was going to be a challenge. Sure, he’s 42 now, and he always puts a lot of men on base. But he’ll be a veteran guy in a pretty young pen, and he always seems to find a way out of the sticky situations he makes for himself.