Category: Seattle Mariners
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger 6.29.2026
Sunday’s slate featured eight reliever wins (one accompanied by a blown save), 11 saves, and seven losses, with seven blown saves. Here are the saves in condensed form: There have been 642 saves this season by 181 different pitchers. This number of pitchers with a save was not reached until August 18 last year. Here…
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Garrett Crochet and Jason Adam return
September 21, 2023 Chicago White Sox – Aaron Bummer and Bryan Shaw are in line for saves now that Gregory Santos is out for the year, but they’ll be joined in the bullpen by old friend Garrett Crochet. Although Crochet might be a starter next season, he’s likely to stay in relief for the next…
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Andres Munoz dealing with nagging injury
September 11, 2023 Chicago Cubs – As expected, Adbert Alzolay got the day off after pitching in two straight, and the Cubs used Jose Cuas, Mark Leiter Jr., Hayden Wesneski, and Julian Merryweather (in that order) to get the game’s final 10 outs. It was Merryweather’s first save of the season, and he’ll likely share…
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A pair of first career saves
August 21, 2023 Seattle Mariners – The Mariners were forced to go to their bullpen early, and with only Andres Munoz and Gabriel Speier left as high leverage arms they gave Munoz the 8th inning. This left the 9th for Speier, who converted for his first career save. This was almost certainly a matchup based…
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Two days, two saves for Matt Brash
August 18, 2023 New York Mets – With Adam Ottavino and Brooks Raley getting the day off, the Mets used Drew Smith to get out of a tight spot in the 7th inning. That left the save chance to Trevor Gott, who converted for his first of the season. Hierarchy remains: *Ottavino | Raley |…