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Come on, man. Whether or not a team has a 3 run or less lead in the 9th is arbitrary. Whether a guy protects it in the 8th or 9th is arbitrary. Think second level, please, with these kinds of posts.
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I don't see anything wrong with Davidson and Semien starting the year at Charlotte, too.
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How have I said they weren't? I didn't contradict my statement by coming up with a success story. There isn't one. Stop making stuff up. |
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I am not a fan of the save stat and believe it has had a negative infuence on how managers manage. Still, the reality is that even teams that don't have a Gossage or Eckersley or Rivera employ closers to close out games. If you have a pitcher whose major job is to close out games when your team has the lead, his success is how well he can do that. All those perepheral stats don't really measure his success. They might tell you how difficult a pitcher was to hit, butclosers aren't paid to come in with the game on the line and the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the seventh. They are paid to close out wins. Unless you have a bullpen where you have several pitchers closing out games depending on the matchups and the work they're getting, saves are the most relevant stat to the success of a closer. |
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He doesn't weigh very much.
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Look, he is a work in progress, I realize that. But I see no reason to give up on him yet. |
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There is no need to make it complicated....saves are important. End of story.
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A pitcher with 40 saves is not necessarily a better pitcher with 0 saves. Jesse Crain was probably the best relief pitcher in the A.L. last year before he got hurt. Not 1 save.
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The last three outs in a game are no more important than the other ones. They're only different because they come last, and people have been brainwashed into thinking that they're harder to get and that you need a dedicated reliever who gets the last outs and does nothing else.
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Boondock are you saying that every team has been brainwashed into having a closer's role? How often do starters hurl complete games anymore? The bullpen has become especially important and especially the closer. |
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Yet you are the biggest fan of the win stat I have ever seen. Go figure.
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