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BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford will have season-ending surgery on his left elbow Thursday. Crawford has been playing with pain since coming off the disabled list last month and will have Tommy John surgery. "It became clear over last few days that surgery was going to happen," Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington said Monday on a conference call. "We felt like after talking about it more this weekend with Carl, the right thing to do is to get it taken care of now. He had played through the injury and played pretty well, but it wasnt getting better. The symptoms were getting worse. It wasnt fair to ask him to keep going out there. We decided to take care of it now and he agreed to do that." Crawford was a major disappointment last season, his first with Boston after signing a $142-million, seven-year contract. He batted .255 with 11 home runs and 56 RBIs, and had only 18 steals after swiping 107 bases combined in the previous two seasons with Tampa Bay. He missed the first 89 games this season while recovering from left wrist surgery. He partially tore his elbow ligament in April while rehabbing, slowing his return. Crawford was activated from the disabled list July 16 and was batting .282 with three homers and 19 RBIs. He is expected to be sidelined six to nine months. "The recovery is shorter than a pitcher and can be up to nine months," Cherington said. "Position players have come back sooner than that in a couple cases. Its a quicker return then a pitcher would be." Wholesale Jerseys Supply .  This week, Arsenal catches offensive fire while Everton gets unlucky and Manchester United shines with their brightest lights on the bench. Wholesale Jerseys Cheap . -- A.J. Burnett was happy to escape from New York. http://www.wholesalechinajerseysmall.com/ .1 million on Saturday. Nielsen, who was selected by the Islanders with the 87th overall pick in the 2002 NHL Draft, played in 16 games for the club last season and collected two goals with one assist.SUN CITY, South Africa -- Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer says the debate over putting with long clubs is far from over. Langer has been using a long putter he anchors to his chest for 15 years, and the German remains one of the best on the 50-and-older Champions Tour, winning the money list for the fourth time this year. He was perplexed when the U.S. Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club announced a new rule that would ban players from anchoring the club to the body. "It has been out for that long," Langer said Thursday at the Nedbank Challenge. "If there is anything illegal about it, why did they not stop it right away? If it is that easy with a long putter, a belly putter, why arent 90 per cent of the pros and 100 per cent of the amateurs using it?" Langer suggested there might be a challenge to the rule proposal. "I do not think it is the end of it," he said. "There are pros that are on tour that grew up with that putter. They have invested 15-20 years in practicing, maybe 30 years practicing with a long putter or belly putter, and now theyy have to switch and they make a living doing that.ddddddddddddquot; Carl Pettersson and Tim Clark, who use long putters, have hinted at fighting any ban on the anchored stroke. They have used long putters as long as they have been on the PGA Tour. Clark is on holiday in South African and could not be reached for comment, while Pettersson declined interviews Thursday, not wanting to talk about the rule. The governing bodies will take comment on the proposed rule for three months before approving it. The rule would not take effect until 2016. Bill Haas used the belly putter in 2011 when he won the Tour Championship can captured the $10 million bonus in the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour. He switched back to a conventional putter this year and won at Riviera. Haas, who has used both putters recently, doesnt think the rule needs to be changed. "I thought I putted worse with it (the belly putter) for a while," the American said. "I think its just a way to putt. Ive heard Webb Simpson talk about it and he says stats show the best putters arent belly putters users." ' ' '