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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
The thing is that many relief pitchers seem to struggle with the idea of getting outs 25 to 27 for whatever reason. So there is some moxy required for a Closer that requires a bit more than just good stuff to close out a game. There's guys who can mow down the 1-2-3 hitters in the 7th no problem. But ask them to do it in the 9th and they completely clam up. So I think the reason that a lot of teams do not seem to take this approach is that psychologically it's more of a hurdle than it should be. I mean Hoffman got beat by the weakest hitter in the lineup of all guys.
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I think that's a paychological thing that comes externally though - if thr team was clear they valued the last 3 outs exactly the same as the other 24 I think you could get guys over that. Especially if you rotated through your leverage guys.