RELIEVERS: September saves leaders?
Aug 26 2017
Matt Cederholm is filling in for Doug Dennis, who is on special assignement working up a fix for the White Sox bullpen.
With just over a month remaining in the season, several teams have questions at the back end of their bullpens. While skills are always important, the real question over a short stretch like this often comes down to managerial tastes—that guy with the 6 BPV (we're looking at you, Sam Dyson) might hold on to his job as long as he's not blowing saves. That rookie with the 99 MPH fastball may be the closer of the future, but the manager may want to go with a veteran arm down the stretch.
We'll examine a few bullpens with question marks and try to predict who will earn the saves in September. This is necessarily a...
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