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<div dir="auto">Absolutely. But guys with skills will put up numbers regardless of whether they are "the guy." That's the beauty of the new scoring. It somwhat neutralizes the effects of the whims of MLB managers and rewards guys who can pitch. And those guys have a way of tumbling into leverage over time. Example: Karinchak. The guy's a beast whether he closes or not. He's more valuable than Hand, hands down.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mark Blocker <blockermark@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 8/28/20 6:08 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: USML Announcements <announce@usml.net> </div><div>Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Nice stat line </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">You've definitely done a good job of collecting successor closers, but how many closers last the whole year? By my count, I think only 4 of the 15 AL teams are using the same closer that they planned to use at the time of the draft. Not the most reliable position.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:52 AM springkerb--- via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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<div> <font size="2">Laying the foundation for Yoshi Hirano to close for Seattle. Geez, I think that will bring me to four closers. Anybody want one?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Always have to enjoy looking at box scores and seeing your pitcher (Taylor Williams In this case) post a 64.29 ERA and a 5.714 WHIP on a blown save.<br>
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