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Originally posted by virgonomic View PostI had Benoit queued up last night but couldn't pick him up because games had started.
Today I went to work like a normal person. When I got the closermonkey email and went to the league site, another owner had beaten me by 7 mins."Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Your shitty future continues to offend me."
-Warren Ellis
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Originally posted by Erik View PostDon't forget the Phillies also have Benoit. I could see him being option 2 if Gomez falters so that Neris doesn't get an inflated price come arbitration time. Teams that aren't going to contend sometimes factor that into their thinking.
This also allows them to use Neris like the Indians use Andrew Miller.Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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still good with getting Neris for a buck.
Benoit did not, upon further review, play with Old Hoss Radbourn.
but he and Andres Galarraga - who played with 1970s Expos SP Steve Rogers, who was born in the 1940s - both did play for the 2001 Texas Rangers.Last edited by Judge Jude; 04-10-2017, 10:56 PM.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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doolittle with the save for the A's today. casilla pitches a perfect 8th (3 Ks), then doolittle strikes out the side in the 9th, while giving up a hit and walk, for the save.
it's as "closer by committee" as it gets..."Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" Albert Hofmann
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Big wave of pickups on Rosenthal today. Is there news or just more evidence of his return to form?
JAd Astra per Aspera
Oh. In that case, never mind. - Wonderboy
GITH fails logic 101. - bryanbutler
Bah...OJH caught me. - Pogues
I don't know if you guys are being willfully ignorant, but... - Judge Jude
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Oh has looked TERRIBLE with low MPH and Rosenthal is back and in a slow-starting 'pen (yes, small sample size squared)
I will take Rosy for Buchholz (toast) tomorrow if he's still available in deep NL-onlyfinished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Looks like the situation in Oakland is somewhat clearer...Bob Melvin says that it's going to be either Casilla or Doolittle...
"It's not that complicated, it's gonna be Doolittle or (Santiago) Casilla depending on the matchups,""Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Your shitty future continues to offend me."
-Warren Ellis
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Originally posted by revo View PostDyson nuked again, giving up 3 runs to blow another save. He's become Shawn Tolleson, Part II.
CLOSER MONKEY:
Tony Barnette should get the next save chance in Texas
April 13, 2017
Texas Rangers — Before Texas blew its game open — gifting a save to young Jose Leclerc — the first save chance in the post-Sam Dyson era was slated for Tony Barnette, a 33-year-old with no prior major league saves. In 2015, though, Barnette led the Japan Central League with 41 of them, tied with some guy named Seung-hwan Oh. Jeremy Jeffress pitched the seventh and part of the eighth, but is still in the mix for future opportunities. Behind those two are Matt Bush, whose health is in doubt after a shoulder injection, and Leclerc, who retired Mike Trout and Albert Pujols in a tight spot in the eighth (making Trout look silly in the process), then stuck around for the lower-leverage ninth. Until Bush proves he’s healthy, we’ll move Leclerc past him.
Updated hierarchy: *Barnette | Jeffress | Leclerc.
* = closer-by-committee
FANGRAPHS:
Bullpen Report: April 12, 2017
by Al Melchior - April 13, 2017
With the Rangers heading into the final frame with a 6-3 lead against the Angels on Wednesday night, it looked as if we were going to get our first peek at what the future of the Rangers’ ninth inning will be. Sam Dyson and Matt Bush (shoulder) were unavailable, and with Jose Leclerc throwing the last four pitches of the eighth inning (including a three-pitch strikeout of Mike Trout), he was primed to come out for the ninth. Tony Barnette was an option, too.
The Rangers tacked on two more runs in the top of the ninth, so the save chance was gone if a new reliever was brought in. Instead, Leclerc stayed in the game and finished it, yielding only an Andrelton Simmons single, notching two strikeouts and recording the five-out save. Jeff Banister still thinks Dyson could be the team’s closer, but if Leclerc gets some additional save chances in place of Dyson or Bush, it could be hard to take him out of the role.Last edited by Msaint; 04-13-2017, 02:04 AM.12-team mixed keeper. 6x6 (OBP, QS the extra categories).
C- J.McCann
1B-Cron
2B- Villar
SS- Andrus
3B-Baez
MI-L. Gurriel
CI- Y.Gurriel
OF- Blackmon, Judge, Betts, Dom.Santana
UTIL- Benintendi
BENCH: Pence, Dyson
SP: Verlander, Scherzer, M. Boyd, JA Happ, Ponce de Leon
RP: Yates, Greene, C.Martinez, Oberg, Bummer, N.Anderson
IL: Buxton
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I read somewhere that Bush should be available on the weekend (they didn't put him on the 10-day DL), so this is a very fluid situation. I'd expect that it could be Bush's by next week.It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.
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Originally posted by TranaGreg View PostI read somewhere that Bush should be available on the weekend (they didn't put him on the 10-day DL), so this is a very fluid situation. I'd expect that it could be Bush's by next week.
Tony Barnette is the play here, even if Bush is back. Banister has said very specifically that he prefers vets in the closer role.
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from Evan Grant's column this am ...
The Rangers announced Matt Bush had left the club to return to Dallas for an anti-inflammatory injection in the AC joint on the top of his shoulder. The Rangers aren't putting Bush on the disabled list - yet. They are hopeful he can return to pitch this weekend in Seattle.
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Some of this could be resolved by the time the Rangers get to Seattle. Bush could be back. The Rangers expect the injection to give him relief in two to four days. He had a similar injection last year, club officials said. The longest he went between outings was five days in mid-August.It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.
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Originally posted by TranaGreg View Postfrom Evan Grant's column this am ...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to read Bainnister's mind re: who he wants in the 9th ... I just wanted to point that Bush may not be out for that long.
Either way I don't see Bush as a closer for Banister if he has other decent options. He specifically called out the fact that Barnette and Jeffress had closed before in a recent interview, so, unfortunately, that is playing into the decision.
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