Tim Wakefield pitching against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2006. Steve Nesius/Associated Press Tim Wakefield 1966-2023 Tim Wakefield arrived in Boston in 1995 with a tenuous hold on his baseball future after being released by the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates. From that inglorious beginning, he forged an extraordinary career. No one pitched more or longer in a Red Sox uniform than Wakefield. For 3,006 innings across 17 seasons, he employed his mystifying knuckleball to practice a form of mound sorcery. He won 186 games with the team, earned two World Series rings as a player, and, in 2009, became an...