RELIEVERS: Chasing late-season saves

Time to make some tough choices with the free agent money you have left. Five pens you might be eyeballing are Arizona, Colorado, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. Let's take a look at Arizona.

Arizona, Arizona, Arizona. What are you doing? The bullpen is down to four contenders to close, and none of them are really up to it, based on the past 30 days. In fact, here are the skill sets over the past 30 days:

ARI             Sv Hld  IP   Dom  Cmd HR/9 xERA  BPV CLN/APP  LI   vL   vR
==============  == === ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ======= ==== ==== ====
S.Crichton       0  1  14.0  7.7  1.7  0.6 4.92   38   8/12  1.43 .250 .265
J.Guerra         0  1  10.7  8.4  1.4  0.8 5.02   19   6/12  0.98 .208 .148
K.Ginkel         0  0   9.7...

Almost!

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