Category: San Diego Padres
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Santiago Casilla is a man on the mound; here comes Big Will again
May 13, 2016 San Francisco Giants — For the second straight night, Santiago Casilla ran into trouble. He faced five batters, and while he did strike out two, he allowed the others to reach base via a walk and two hits. Bruce Bochy then summoned lefty specialist Javier Lopez to face Jake Lamb, enraging Casilla. “It…
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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…
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Rough start for K-Rod and Tigers ‘pen
April 6, 2016 Detroit Tigers — The Tigers revamped their beleaguered bullpen in the offseason and it came to fruition on Tuesday as starter Shane Greene picked up his first career save. Just as the organization drew it up! Francisco Rodriguez was horrible in his Detroit debut, allowing three runs on four hits to set the…
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Just a flesh wound for Andrew Miller
April 1, 2016 New York Yankees — Wikipedia informed Andrew Miller that his broken pisiform bone wasn’t very important, so the lefthander decided he’ll pitch through the injury. “It’s my right hand; I don’t really need it,” Miller said, in a quote that reads like an April Fool’s joke about Carlos Marmol. The news was not as good for Bryan…
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2016 NL West preview
March 2, 2016 Arizona Diamondbacks – There are few question marks for the Diamondbacks bullpen heading into 2016. Brad Ziegler earned the ninth inning midway through last season and never looked back. He’ll have two strong options handing him the lead, as Daniel Hudson and newly-signed Tyler Clippard will handle the seventh and eighth innings. Clippard,…