Tag: Ben Joyce
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | 3.25.2026
With Opening Day here, our focus remains on spring results and potential changes in bullpen hierarchies. Today’s ledger features the limited Spring Training results from Tuesday, and bullpen notes from multiple team beat writers from MLB.com. For those interested in our premium option (ad-free content), please use this LINK; it is $30 and covers the…
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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…
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Monkey Bytes | March 22
One day removed from reports suggesting Opening Day was in question, Félix Bautista appeared in a spring training game against the Tigers. He recorded a strikeout, gave up a solo home run, issued a walk, produced another strikeout, and walked one more batter before his removal. Per Roch Kubatko, Bautista threw 26 pitches, hitting 98…
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Monkey Bytes | March 18
Following his rough outing on Saturday, Alexis Díaz will make his next appearance in a minor league game per Mark Shelton on BlueSky: At this career stage, Terry Francona does not have the patience for free passes by his closer. Díaz has not recorded a walk rate below 12.6 percent through three seasons. It may…
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Monkey Bytes | March 15
Logging his fourth spring outing, Félix Bautista fired a clean fifth while recording two strikeouts. Per Roch Kubatko on “X.” Bautista reached 98 miles per hour and induced one groundout in this outing. He has a 1.50 WHIP with seven strikeouts against one walk (33.3 K-BB%), and a 14.1 swinging strike percentage. As his command…