Refreshing

Instead of watching chocolate rain over and over this evening, which is the Sunday routine here in the bat cave, I decided to read about baseball. Most notably, this column by the MLB Brewers beat writer. This quote stood out right way.

You might as well put your top guy out there in that inning because the game's on the line then

I will be the first to admit that the save is an overrated stat in todays baseball. But when you have the best relief pitcher in history, you have to use him that way.
The thing that a lot of people like to say is that the bullpen was the downfall of the team last year. I say those people are dumb asses. They had something like the 4th or 5th best bullpen in the NL. That is a fact. But back to the quote...

That is new manager Ken Macha. And it is hardly a Yostian idea. See, Neddy bear had set roles, and set times when he would bring in set releivers. He did not like math, though he claimed to have it on his side. Numbers tell us that bringing in the best relief pitcher you have at the highest leverage time results more often in a win. And since hells bells(I hate AC/DC) wont be played until the ninth, there are a couple options for the new skipper.

The article goes on to focus on one David Riske. Readers of this website may remember my talk of this guy being the future closer(overrated). Well...I have abandoned those words as of last year. But this doesnt mean that the guy is not good. He was hurt, during spring camp, last year. But the numbers do say that he is a good relief pitcher. So behind the Hoffmeister, there are 3 options for good, healthy, long releif.

Not to mention the plethora of short releif options in camp, the pen looks to be better than last year, and we can all rest easy that Greg Aquino will not be serving up grand slams to the best non juiced player to ever play the game(some asshole used AC/DC for this) God I hate those guys.

Anyway, we here at NWIM like the way that the pen is shaping up. Yes I used an acronym because I cant read good. And since baseball generally comes down to pitching, that is a good thing. Not my reading habits, but the bullpen in general.