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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
The bullpen has blown 8 saves
Osuna (3), Biagini (2), Grilli (1) account for 6 of them.
Those three were going to be the back end of the bullpen no matter what, and I don't think spending more money would have changed that. Especially with Osuna and Biagini. Can't really blame Rogers/Shatkins for these guys, who were very reliable last season, for not doing their jobs well enough when past history has shown them to be quite reliable.
They hang onto close out 4 of those and this team is just 13-15 with terrible hitting and two injured starters so far this season.
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Can't blame them on Osuna and Biagini, but you sure can on Grilli. He was pretty bad last year, blew multiple leads late in game, and was bailed out multiple other times by the D. And even if you disagree with that assessment on Grilli, you can't go a 162 major league game season with three quality arms in your pen. Last year when we actually addressed the bullpen, we had Cecil, Benoit, Lirianio (on spot duty), Grilli, Osuna, Biagini,and Feldman. Compare that to what we started with this year. We cheaped out took a couple flyers on Smith and Howell.