Tag: Jorge López

  • Monkey Bytes | May 25

    Monkey Bytes | May 25

    Saturday’s slate featured 16 contests and a bevy of high-leverage events of interest. Relievers recorded nine wins and nine saves, including two career firsts. They also suffered eight losses, with three games requiring extra innings. Here are the condensed saves from Saturday: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB Josh Hader 13 17 76.5 17.6…

  • Monkey Bytes: August 24

    Monkey Bytes: August 24

    After a slow Thursday in the world of high-leverage events, Friday made up for it. Nine relievers recorded a win (60 percent of the slate), and seven secured saves. Ron Washington frustrated fantasy managers everywhere using Ben Joyce in the eighth against Toronto’s 3-4-5 lineup pocket and suffered a walk-off loss with his best reliever…

  • Monkey Bytes, May 1: Hader logs two innings, Muñoz posts his first five-out save, Durán debuts, Game Recaps, and more

    Chaos did not reign supreme but was sprinkled throughout Tuesday’s 16-game slate. Detroit deployed a match-up-based approach during Game 1, which backfired. There were two ancillary saves, two first saves of the season, though one was by a closer returning from injury. In all, nine saves were secured and five blown saves, recapped in our…

  • Monkey Bytes, April 9: Phillies “floating closer” concept resurfaces, Helsley suffers a loss, Game Recaps, Injury Notes, and more

    After recording his team’s first two saves, José Alvarado appeared in the eighth, matching up with a left-handed lineup pocket, not as a traditional closer. This readjusts the leverage ladder which felt like it was stabilizing, but as this game points out, did not. There were other events of interest in the 13-game slate, covered…