Closer Monkey

Tag: Carlos Martinez

  • Jordan Hicks likely down for the season with torn UCL

    June 25, 2019 St. Louis Cardinals – The Cardinals announced that Jordan Hicks has a torn UCL and will likely miss the rest of the season. John Gant and Carlos Martinez are the two relievers who could inherit the job. The Cardinals’ president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said that Gant would be the one…

  • Jordan Hicks has torn UCL

    June 24, 2019 St. Louis Cardinals – The Cardinals announced that Jordan Hicks has a torn UCL. We think Carlos Martinez will now be the lead option to close, but John Gant could get some save opportunities as well.  Updated hierarchy: *Martinez | Gant | Miller.* = closer-by-committee

  • Mychal Givens, Wade Davis both on thin ice

    June 17, 2019 Baltimore Orioles – After converting a save earlier in the week, Mychal Givens had another dreadful outing on Sunday, blowing the save in the 9th and then giving up three additional runs in the 10th. The Orioles don’t have much else, so there isn’t a clear candidate for the next save chance…

  • Carlos Martinez records save while Craig Kimbrel market should heat up very soon

    June 2, 2019 St. Louis Cardinals — Jordan Hicks got Saturday off as we expected, and the Cardinals turned to their closer from the end of last year, Carlos Martinez.  Martinez responded with a perfect ninth for his first save of the season.  After missing the beginning of the season, Martinez is beginning to settle…

  • Jesse Chavez picks up fourth save for good, but volatile, Cubs bullpen

    September 28, 2018 Chicago Cubs — Fan favorite Jesse Chavez picked up his fourth save in a Cubs uniform, allowing just a hit in an inning of work and dropping his Cubs ERA to 1.25. Nasty. Any one of Steve Cishek, Justin Wilson, CJ Edwards, Chavez, or Jorge de la Rosa could net a save this…