Year: 2016
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Jesse Chavez and Cory Gearrin are moving up
May 7, 2016 Toronto Blue Jays — After the Jays called on a shaky Drew Storen to finish off a 5-2 win over the Dodgers, John Gibbons explained that Roberto Osuna was unavailable with a mild groin strain. Osuna, speaking through a translator (to the bafflement of Blue Jay Twitter), said he’d be fine for Saturday,…
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Ken Giles: the struggle continues
May 6, 2016 Houston Astros — Ken Giles has been relegated to earlier appearances for a little while now, an attempt to “ease the burden of the eighth inning” off of his world-weary shoulders. Giles opened the seventh for Houston on Thursday and didn’t seem any more relaxed; he put the first two guys on, then watched Tony Sipp usher them home.…
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Final Boss making moves in St. Louis
May 5, 2016 St. Louis Cardinals – The Final Boss, Seung Hwan Oh, lowered his ERA to 1.72 in the 8th inning of Wednesday’s game. He also sports an 11.2 K/9 as while limiting opponents to a .148 batting average. These numbers, and the fact that Jonathan Broxton has been used while his team is…
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Carson Smith makes his Red Sox debut
May 4, 2016 Boston Red Sox — Carson Smith made his Red Sox debut and performed well, striking out one and allowing zero hits on nine pitches. The same could not be said for Junichi Tazawa, who allowed two runs in a third of an inning. We’ll see how Smith is deployed with the Sox…
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Josh Osich is holding the Giants’ bullpen together
May 3, 2016 San Francisco Giants – Josh Osich has been getting the nod in the 8th inning more consistently than Hunter Strickland of late. Though he’s a lefty and his splits are rather skewed, he regularly goes an inning or more and has been consistently better than Strickland. We expect Osich to be the…