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 More Red Sox NewsRed Sox LinksRed Sox reliever Daniel Bard is looking for a bigger role this coming season. "If you want to be the best reliever you can be, ultimately that probably ends up being the closer," Bard said Monday. "That's where usually the most talented, the most successful guys [go], what they end up doing. That's my goal. I don't know if it'll happen here or somewhere else, two, three, five years down the road. But, yeah, that would be my probably ultimate goal." Closer Jonathan Papelbon is signed through the 2011 season. "I don't think you can truly know if a guy's a closer until you put him in that role," Bard said. "But you've seen so many guys come through a set-up role into a closing job - [Mariano] Rivera did it, a handful of other guys have done it along the way. It seems to be a logical progression as far as kind of working your way into more pressured situa tions. I think that's the best way. I'm no GM or anything, but we'll see what happens." |
