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Originally Posted by JayP
Another classic example of Cito over-managing and burning out his entire bullpen for a combined 2.1 outs. You simply can't manage like that when you have an average closer in Gregg.
You knew that Gregg didn't have it when he was more worried about a meaningless run with Crawford on 2nd and a 5-3 lead than the batter. A guy like Gregg should always have Frasor, Downs, or Camp (based on his play this year) ready to go in the bullpen because he's not a consistent enough player to expect him to get himself out of trouble. When he gets in trouble it's because he's having an off-night and when he's having one of those he's ugly to watch.
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Gregg has shown this year that he will struggle with his control the second day if he's used in back to back games. They should either stop using him to close out the games that second day, or make sure they have Frasor ready to go in case Gregg doesn't have his control that second day.
Too bad for Gregg if it hurts his feelings to be pulled from the game with only 1 out left after he walks the bases loaded.