MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — It's time for some simple trivia. Can you name the seven Red Sox players remaining from the 2013 World Series roster?

David Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia are givens. You can't overlook Koji Uehara and Junichi Tazawa in the bullpen, and you remember Clay Buchholz, even if that isn't always your goal. Xander Bogaerts introduced himself to the world that October.

But that’s it, right? Nobody else?

How about the guy who pitched the penultimate inning of the season? How about Brandon Workman?

"I was thinking about that when we were all together last night," Workman said at Red Sox Winter Weekend Saturday. "A lot of different faces around."

Workman missed the entirety of the 2015 season, eventually undergoing Tommy John surgery on June 15. His rehabilitation process has gone more or less according to plan: He picked up a ball and started throwing again in October, he'll start throwing to a catcher this next week and he hopes to be a factor on the major-league roster sometime this season, probably around the All-Star break.

That doesn’t mean it's been easy.

"It's been a definite process; that’s the word for it," Workman said. "It's been slower than I like at times. I've just tried to stay focused, take it day by day, stay on the plan and not get too far ahead of myself. It has been a process."

After providing an unexpected boost in both the rotation and the bullpen in 2013, Workman's 2014 was a disappointment. His velocity dropped and he couldn’t find a rhythm in either role. By spring 2015, his elbow was barking.

Now, with a light at the end of the Tommy John tunnel, he's eager to get back to pitching — and pitching healthy — whenever he can.

"I definitely appreciate being healthy and being able to play baseball when that is the case, because this summer wasn’t the most fun summer I've ever had, just sitting and rehabbing," he said. "I'm definitely excited to get back out there. I won't take that for granted at all."

Workman was being viewed as a reliever last spring, and there's no reason to imagine that changing this year. That should simplify things for a pitcher who was jerked between roles in the past, and whose velocity should play up in shorter stints. That also makes it easier to see him contributing later this season, as bullpens experience more month-to-month flux than any part of the roster.

"I'm definitely planning on it," Workman said of pitching in the majors in 2016. "At some point this year, [I'll] be back and ready to go."