Honest • Unbiased • Apolitical
Your Connection to the Diamond!
Honest • Unbiased • Apolitical
Your Connection to the Diamond!
Reliever Roundup & Bullpen Bonanza: The Blue Jays Relief Corps Is Their Achilles Heel During the Fox coverage of the Toronto Blue Jays–New York Yankees Division Series, one stat they showed the first time the Blue Jays bullpen gate opened was that their relief unit had not lost a lead since September 1. While true, […]
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Reliever Roundup & Bullpen Bonanza: Phillies Bullpen Adeptly Adapts at Turning Points PHOENIX — The Philadelphia Phillies had a strong bullpen in 2024, with Jeff Hoffman and Matt Strahm both making the NL All-Star team. But the Phillies’ season ended in the NLDS when their All-Stars, along with the rest, ran into trouble against the […]
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Perseverance Pays Off for Athletics Fireman Tyler Ferguson Perseverance paid off for Athletics setup man extraordinaire Tyler Ferguson. He debuted in 2024 at the age of 30 after playing nine years of minor league and independent league baseball. “It’s been a long road,” he said during a 2025 spring training interview at Hohokam Stadium in […]
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Victor Vodnik, the Reliable Rookie Rockies Reliever SAN DIEGO — It was the bottom of the ninth inning of Friday’s Rockies–Padres game, and Victor Vodnik was on the mound with two outs. He was protecting a 5–2 Rockies lead, facing Jackson Merrill with Jake Cronenworth on second and a 1–2 count. Vodnik fooled Merrill with […]
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Reliever Roundup and Bullpen Bonanza — Orioles vs Rangers Comparison Welcome to the Division Series! Here is the bullpen/reliever/relief corps comparison for the AL Division Series between the AL East Champion Baltimore Orioles and Wild Card Texas Rangers, based on recent form. For this edition, we’ve used stats from September 1 onward. Statistics are for […]
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Reliever Roundup and Bullpen Bonanza — 9/26–10/1 Team Rankings We are in the 26th and final week of the regular season. Here are the team bullpen/reliever/relief corps rankings as we wind the season down. Six of the seven NL playoff contenders are in the NL top seven. Four of the top five in the AL […]
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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 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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