Craig Hansen, the young reliever in the Red Sox team, is all the more happy to be part of the Spring Training sessions and says that he is totally refreshed and energized to be back in the reckoning for this season. According to Craig Hansen, he was suffering from a very peculiar problem of waking up at an average of about 56 times an hour while sleeping and also had to hear regular complaints from his room mates and family members for his loud snoring problems. Hansen was advised to visit a sleep-study clinic which resulted in him discovering that he was suffering from sleep apnea.

Hansen did not tell his bosses about his sleeping apnea problems and had to reveal the same when he was caught napping during the Red Sox Rookie Development Program in 2007. Hansen finally had to budge before his Red Sox bosses and underwent a corrective procedure for his apnea problems from Dr. Mack Cheney at the Ear and Eye Infirmary in Massachusetts during the month of November 2007. Hansen feels great after the surgery and says that he is now fully recovered from the sleep apnea problems. Now the fans, team management and the players are hoping that Craig Hansen lives up to the high expectations that they have in him.