PT TODAY: Surprise replacement for Uehara in BOS

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Red Sox | Jean Machi to close
Boston Red Sox RP Jean Machi will close with RP Koji Uehara (wrist) sidelined, according to manager John Farrell. Machi only has three career saves.  Source: The Boston Globe - Peter Abraham
 
BHQ take: Updating a very recent situation, Uehara was diagnosed with a non-displaced distal fracture of his right wrist and will miss the remainder of the 2015 season. Farrell's anointment of Machi as the closer comes as quite a surprise. Machi's Ctl, Dom, Cmd, and xERA are all trending in the wrong direction over the past three seasons, and the BaseballHQ Bullpen Indicators chart shows...

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