The Red Sox have been looking to get Mike Lowell out of town for awhile. Not that he’s a bad player, but they’re looking to update their staff a little bit and get the team back into winning condition rather than keeping too many veterans around. During trade talks with Texas, he was required to take a physical, where they discovered that the sore thumb was in fact a torn ligament. How can that happen? Somehow the Red Sox hadn’t bothered to look into it. So now the trade talk is off with Rangers, who would much rather have their right handed bat ready to go instead of having to wait as long as two months to get him moving. The Sox might not be able to get Lowell out at this rate. They’ll just have to keep at it though, since they do want something new.