Category: Baltimore Orioles
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Around the league as Opening Day approaches
July 20, 2020 Atlanta Braves — Will Smith has overcome his entanglement with COVID-19 and should be back before August. Mark Melancon should close for now. Updated hierarchy: Melancon | Greene | Jackson. Baltimore Orioles — The shorter season makes it more likely that closer-in-waiting Hunter Harvey will start out with a chance to claim…
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2020 AL East Preview
February 24, 2020 Baltimore Orioles — We start with what should be one of the worst bullpens in baseball again in 2020. Baltimore’s relief arms had an AL-worst 5.63 ERA last season (amazingly, only the eventual champion Nationals were worse at 5.66). The Orioles did nothing to improve their relief corps, so we believe Mychal…
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A bunch of late September vulture saves
September 23, 2019 New York Mets — Seth Lugo got used ahead of Justin Wilson again, facing the middle of the Reds’ order. This has become a pattern of sorts, so we’ll throw an asterisk on here for the last week of the season. Robert Gsellman is also nearing a return. Updated hierarchy: Lugo |…
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Turn the lights off when you go, Hunter Harvey
September 19, 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers — Kenley Jansen pieced together three straight solid outings, leading Dodgers fans to wonder if the closer had finally turned the corner and regained his edge. Then came Wednesday and his career-high eighth blown save. The only upside for LA was that their loss kept the Yankees up late…
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Jose Urena earns his first save of the season
September 4, 2019 Miami Marlins – Jose Urena pitched a 1-2-3 10th inning to convert his first save opportunity in his new role as the Marlins’ closer. Expect Urena to get a majority of whatever save opportunities the Marlins can muster over the next few weeks. Hierarchy remains: *Urena | Stanek | Garcia.* = closer-by-committee…