All-Aughts Team of the Decade RP1: Mike Timlin

Today's All-Aughts Team of the Decade entrants will number two. This morning you're getting the best reliever of the decade as well as one-half of the best relief pitching tandem the Sox have witnessed in a long time. This afternoon, you get the other half. Let's kick things off this morning with the pitcher that appeared in the most games for the BoSox this decade despite only six years of service. That's Mike Timlin, with 394 games appeared in as one of the better setup men the team has ever seen. Also, perhaps one of the best persons the team has witnessed. My favorite quote of Timlin's time in Boston's career came by an anonymous scout that I remember to this day, and it sums Timlin up in a nutshell: “They said he had no guts in Baltimore. Nobody in Boston says that, do they?”

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