Category: Three Takeaways
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Monkey Bytes | April 5
Friday’s 14-game slate featured three reliever wins, three losses, and seven saves in nine opportunities. There were elevated pitch counts, some velocity concerns, and more notes of interest covered in today’s post. Three Takeaways (1) Should Pressly be on the “hot seat”? – Walking the wire during the top of the ninth, Ryan Pressly held…
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Monkey Bytes | April 3
Tuesday’s full slate resulted in five reliever wins and four losses while they converted nine of 12 save chances. Pittsburgh deployed Dennis Santana in the first save chance since demoting David Bednar, and multiple relievers prepared for a save chance and pitched in a non-save capacity when their teams added runs during the eighth inning.…
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Monkey Bytes | April 2
Unlike Monday, Tuesday’s 14-game slate provided plenty of intrigue across the high-leverage landscape. Relievers recorded six wins and four losses, converting eight of 11 save chances. Entering gameplay yesterday, nine teams were without a save; now there are six, which perfectly transitions into today’s takeaways. Three Takeaways (1) Kahnle converts the Tigers’ first ninth-inning save…
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Monkey Bytes | April 1
Monday’s 14-game slate was a strange one from a high-leverage lens. Baseball Reference identifies a blowout win as a game decided by five or more runs. Yesterday, 10 games were decided by this margin (71.4 percent). This resulted in the relievers recording four wins and two losses, with only four saves. Of these four, two…
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Monkey Bytes | March 31
Sunday’s 13-game slate provided five reliever wins, four losses, and eight saves in ten chances. There were some notable injury updates which will be covered in our three takeaways. Three Takeaways (1) Doval gets the save on Sunday: After turning in a strong spring, Camilo Doval filled in capably while recording his first save with…