Who is the closer for 2009

Another question: who will our closer be Rodney? Zumaya? Lyon? still to be determined?

6 comments:

  1. Evertything that I've read points to retirement. I think he had a pretty good audition as pitching coach in 2006 when he mentored the young staff. I would like to see him coach somewhere, but he should hang up the spikes.

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  2. I hope it's not Rodney. I assume it'll be either Zoom or Lyon, whoever has the better spring.

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  3. Who's the closer?

    See Leyland's quote, and figure it out. "I think we'll have one. maybe two or three." Huh?

    http://beck.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/02/sunday_roundup_zumaya_looks_go.html

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  4. I don't understand why it can't be a closer by commitee. I think there is a lot of pressure that goes alond with being the teams "closer" and I think it would be an interesting experiment to not name a closer and whoever is pitching the best at the time can come in and close the game out for you. I also wouldn't be opposed to seeing Ryan Perry take part in this experiment since I believe he is the closer of the future. Im also of the oppinion that a save is the most overrated statistic there is and a hold is much more impressive. Todd Jones supports my argument.

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  5. From today's Free Press. This sounds bad for Zoom:

    Zumaya talked about how excited he was to be on the mound during a spring-training game, after spending so much of last year on the disabled list. But he admitted that his right shoulder still gets sore.

    "That's going to be the thing," he [Zumaya] said. "It is still fractured in there. But I don't worry about it. It hasn't felt like last year. It feels really good. My arm feels nice and free."

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  6. I agree, Miggy. Why save your "closer" for the 9th inning? Bring him in earlier if the team is struggling. Winning the game matters most.

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