Tag: Bennett Sousa
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 13
Once again, Houston steals the introduction, placing its closer, Josh Hader, on the 15-day injured list: Manager Joe Espada would not commit to defined roles during future save chances, making this another dreaded post-trade deadline committee, covered by Brian McTaggart in this post for MLB.com: Bryan Abreu has nine career saves, without one this season,…
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Monkey Bytes | July 3
Wednesday’s 19 games yielded wins by nine relievers, though two were accompanied by a blown save (Yimi García and Camilo Doval), and ten saves while suffering eight losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB BF Robert Suarez 24 16 62.5 6.3 1:0 6 Jeff Hoffman 20 14…
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Monkey Bytes | June 21
Despite Friday’s slate resulting in seven blowout contests (games decided by five or more runs), relievers recorded seven wins and five saves while suffering six losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB BF Carlos Estévez 22 24 66.7 4.2 0:0 4 Félix Bautista 16 17 64.7 11.8…