[DJ's left nut]

Folks - who else is there? You want to give Joe "Grip it and rip it" Kelly the gig? Rosenthal's done absolutely nothing to earn it; he's hanging every breaker he throws and his fastball has shown less movement on it this year than last. Yesterday he couldn't find the plate with a flashlight and a map.

Mujica is the only other real alternative and I just don't love the idea of a guy that relies on movement, location and defense to generate outs. There's just too much Franklin in the boy for me to be excited about him taking the 9th.

Boggs probably is the best option we have with Motte down. Maybe Rosenthal can force the issue, but to this point he certainly hasn't. Maybe by 2014 Cleto will have forced himself into the conversation, but his command isn't where it needs to be to this point.

Matheny's left in a tough spot here; his closer went down late in the spring and his backup options are spinning their wheels.

Oh, and please stop using that BS blown save stat for a guy that was a setup man. Blown saves aren't really save opportunities when it's the setup guy getting them, that's mostly a blown hold. If you're going to start calling every blown hold a blown save (as the statistic does), then you might as well start calling every hold a save while you're at it. It's a silly mis-use of a straightforward stat. He blew 3 'saves' last year by giving up a single run in the 7th once and the 8th twice. Those aren't blown saves,they're blown holds. In 2011 he blew 4 saves, 2 in the 6th, 1 in the 7th and one single save blown in the 9th.

He's blown seven 'saves' in the last 2 years and only 1 of them was a true save situation. So you can either count those first 6 as blown saves and include every single hold he's secured, or count only the single truly blown save that he's had over the last 2 years.