May 23, 2022
Minnesota Twins – Jhoan Duran picked up his 3rd save of the season with a scoreless 9th inning. This remains a committee, with Emilio Pagan still having a small edge on save-chance-likelihood going forward.
Hierarchy remains: *Pagan | Duran | Duffey.
* = closer-by-committee
St. Louis Cardinals – In Sunday’s 18-run blowout, Yadier Molina came on for the 9th inning and allowed four earned runs, but managed to get the game’s final three outs, earning his first career save in the process. The outing was remarkably similar to Albert Pujols’ appearance last week, and it’s really really cool to see these two surefire Hall of Famers adding this awesome footnote to the final year of their careers.
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Um… okay… our apologies, but we’ve just been informed that neither player actually got a “save” for these outings. So, that’s… hmm. Wait… wait a sec. Wait. So, you’re telling me that Dave Goltz can get a save for this absolute travesty of an outing, but Pujols and Molina merely get stuck with lifetime 36.00 ERAs for their inarguably successful turns on the mound? I mean, their team won, right? And they “closed” out the game — they “saved” it, right? Because if not, then… Wait. Does that… does that mean the “save” stat is arbitrary nonsense and it should really never, under any circumstance, actually be used as a meaningful statistic in fantasy (or IRL) baseball? Is the entire existence of this site based on the musings of some columnist who didn’t have anything else to write about on some random week in 1959 and so he just made this garbage up?!?!
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Anyway, here’s Wonderwall the Vulture Save Watch.
Hierarchy remains: Gallegos | Helsley | Cabrera.
VULTURE SAVE WATCH
Today
1. Rafael Montero – Ryan Pressly has gone back to back and three of four.
2. Drew Steckenrider – Paul Sewald has gone back to back.
Tomorrow
1. Kyle Finnegan – If Tanner Rainey goes today, it’s two straight.
2. Drew Smith – If Edwin Diaz goes today, it’s two straight.
3. Jose Alvarado – If Corey Knebel goes today, it’s two straight.
4. Alexis Diaz – If Art Warren goes today, it’s two straight and three of four.
5. Josh Staumont/Amir Garrett – If Scott Barlow and Josh Staumont go today, it’s two straight for both of them.
6. Michael Fulmer – If Gregory Soto goes today, it’s two straight.
7. Michael King – If Aroldis Chapman goes today, it’s two straight.