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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
If anyone ever tries to argue the ol' "closer by committee" there are mountains of evidence I can give them to show how poorly it actually works in practice.
And with the 2013 St. Louis Cardinals, we have yet another example.
Great bullpens need a dominant closer and everyone else needs to know they're role. BPBC simply does not work because guys like Boggs start to flip out in the 9th, Rosenthal comes in overthrowing in the 7th, etc...
Give them their roles, leave them in them.
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Wasn't speaking to that as much as the implosion of Boggs and others that forced Mujica from the 7th to the 9th.
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