If not for some medical differences of opinion between the Red Sox and Bay — which started around the All-Star break and never really got resolved — they likely would have come together on a new pact.

Once Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein found it blatantly clear in December that common ground could not be reached with Bay, he immediately swooped in and signed Lackey for five years at $82.5 million.

Before the Red Sox landed the big right-hander, the Mets were one of the teams most interested in plucking his services off the free-agent market.
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