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Old 04-07-2012, 01:33 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by flames_1987 View Post
The bullpen has still been the best part of this Jays team the first two games, Grantland featured a great article about how ludicrous the save statistic is and seems to be only used by casual baseball fans with arrogant opinions.
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...dangerous-stat
Yes. The save statistic alone is pretty useless.
But overall W-L records when leading after 6,7 or 8 innings are pretty important.

If the Jays lose today we could have a unique situation where both teams are 0-1 when leading after 8 innings.
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