Tag: Detroit Tigers
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Monkey Bytes | March 10
Sunday’s spring slate featured Mike Clevinger’s debut as a reliever for the White Sox and another outing featuring hard contact against Liam Hendriks of the Red Sox. Beginning with Clevinger, he fired a clean bottom of the fourth and recorded two strikeouts. He threw 11 pitches (63.6 Strike%) and induced three whiffs (27.3 SwStr%): Seeing…
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Monkey Bytes | March 9
With rosters being trimmed, it’s time to ramp up our coverage of bullpens for the 2025 season. This post will focus on game results from Saturday, March 8. There will be some changes this year regarding the daily emails. Those interested in daily free updates with links should subscribe to our page at Substack. Subscribers…
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Updated 2025 Bullpen Hierarchies
Roles may be changed or redefined, and injuries will alter a team’s bullpen hierarchy. However, with Spring Training games in full swing, it’s time for our updated hierarchies. These are subject to change and will be updated on our team pages until Opening Day. American League East Baltimore Orioles – “The Mountain” will return as…
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Under the Hood: Wild Card Round in Review
With the first round of the playoffs in the rearview mirror, here are some thoughts and observations about how relievers performed. American League Detroit Tigers Capping a comeback in Game 2, Will Vest recorded his first postseason save after securing two in the regular season. He also posted 1.2 clean frames in Game 1 with…
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Projected Closers by Team for 2025
Noting many of these situations may change based on end-of-season injury reports and off-season moves, our too-early attempt at identifying the closers for 2025 is ready before the last full slate of games on Sunday, September 29. Thanks for being a part of this season at Closer Monkey. Enjoy and be well. If we have…