Honest • Unbiased • Apolitical
Your Connection to the Diamond!
Honest • Unbiased • Apolitical
Your Connection to the Diamond!
Diamondbacks: Relief Pitching Key in Wild Card Victory over Brewers, Form Must Continue against Dodgers For much of the season, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Achilles heel was relief pitching, especially the back end. Even trading for elite closer Paul Sewald on July 31 seemed to merely be a drop in the bucket, for the Diamondbacks had […]
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Philadelphia Phillies and the Atlanta Braves Square Off in the National League Division Series for the Second Straight Season The Philadelphia Phillies took care of business against the Miami Marlins, sweeping the Wild Card series while taking command of both games and winning comfortably. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Braves take their NL/AL best 104 wins […]
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Reliever Roundup and Bullpen Bonanza — Playoff Team Rankings (Current Form) Welcome to the playoffs! Here are the team bullpen/reliever/relief corps rankings for the playoff teams, based on recent form. For this edition, we’ve used stats from September 1 onward. Statistics are for September and October only and, excluding position pitchers, include every player to […]
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The Arizona Fall League is set to begin its 30th season on Monday October 2. This league is an opportunity for top prospects to continue their growth and play with, and against, other rising stars. Most Fall League players are from Double-A and Triple-A. The games are played in front of major and minor league […]
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Reliever Roundup & Bullpen Bonanza — Week 26 Individual Rankings We are in Week 26, the final week of the regular season. Here are the top ten individual relievers in each league. But these rankings take it to a different level than the other reliever rankings you’ve seen. We will separate our rankings by closers, […]
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Reliever Roundup and Bullpen Bonanza — 9/11–9/17 Team Rankings We are beginning the 23rd week of the season. Here are the team bullpen/reliever/relief corps rankings as we enter the final three weeks of the season. The leader has remained the same since these rankings first ran, but another team almost passed them. An AL Wild […]
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Reliever Roundup & Bullpen Bonanza — Week 22 Individual Rankings We are at the end of Week 22 of the season. Here are the top ten individual relievers in each league. But these rankings take it to a different level than the other reliever rankings you’ve seen. We will separate our rankings by closers, setup […]
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Reliever Roundup and Bullpen Bonanza — 9/4–9/10 Team Rankings We are beginning the 22nd week of the season. Here are the team bullpen/reliever/relief corps rankings as we enter the stretch run. The leader has remained the same since these rankings first ran. A waiver-wire liquidation caused one team to fall 13 spots. One of the […]
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