 Now that pitchers and catchers have reported, bullpen situations across the land will begin to come into focus. One such bully is the Blue Jays' pen, where there are four viable options at closer.
Octavio Dotel is the least likely to win the spot, despite having the most saves of the group at 105. The other candidates are Jon Rauch (47 career saves, 21 in 2010 with the Twins), Jason F...
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 Adrian Gonzalez is one of the premier one baggers in baseball. Anyone who disagrees with this has some bias against him that clearly clouds their vision. Dude just simply mashes. Sure, at age 28 he saw his homers dip to 31 in 2010 from 40 in 2009. Sure, his OPS may have dropped to .904 last season, with both his OBP and SLG taking dips. Gonzalez had a strange year tha...
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 Ok, so it might not have been a perfect game, but Rafael Soriano was about as perfect as possible last night against the Los Angeles Angels. Dude came in to try and close the door in the ninth inning and struck out the side. Sure, that happens quite a bit, but not in the fashion that Soriano accomplished the feat. The leader in all of MLB for saves this season with 38, Soriano ne...
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 Will Ohman is now officially the Baltimore Orioles closer, according to Tristan Cockcroft. How long he will last will be determined by the health of Mike Gonzalez and Alfredo Simon. Ohman is off to a great season, with 17 strikeouts to go with his 0.00 ERA and 1.15 WHIP through 15.2 innings of work. Sure, he may not get a lot of save opportunities playing for Baltimore, but as an...
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 Sean Rodriguez, a 25 year old two bagger for the Rays, was playing at the beach with his daughter and Ray's shorty Jason Bartlett when he had an extremely ironic thing happen. Dude was nabbed by a sting ray. Luckily for Rodriguez, it was only a minor sting on his foot and he will not need any time off.
Some time off might do dude good though, as he is batting .211 with 30 strikeouts i...
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 If you have not yet heard the name Jeremy Hellickson, it is probably because people like myself tend to talk way too much about Aroldis Chapman and Stephen Strasburg. Meanwhile, Hellickson may be the first to arrive in the bigs, and he may have the most value this season. Why don't we take a look at what Hellickson is doing and learn a little more about who this cat is.
Hellickson ent...
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