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Originally Posted by Parallex
Here's where we're going to have to disagree.
Bullpens are the most overvalued part of MLB (No way will two relief pitchers make 10 extra wins).
I'm not much for the mystique of "the Closer" I mean it strikes me as really silly to decline to use your best bullpen option when your up a run with the 2-3-4 hitters coming up in the 7th so that you can have him pitch to the 8-9-1 guy in the 9th...
sometimes games are really saved in innings other then the 9th. If we must I'm perfectly comfortable with Janssen being the setup man (guy had great numbers last year) and retaining Franky as the 9th inning man. I'd be comfortable with Litsch replacing Camp and Carreno replacing Rauch as middle relief options. Like I said I do want a better lefty option... nothing against Luis Perez but I want another southpaw.
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Jays had an insane amount of blown saves last year with a high end closer, that would have generated 8 to 10 more wins.
If I recall Jays had ~ 20 blown saves or something like that.