Tag: Juan Carlos Oviedo
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Grant Balfour out as closer; Rays to use committee
June 9, 2014 Tampa Bay Rays – The Rays will go with a closer-by-committee for the time being, announced Joe Maddon this morning. Grant Balfour will be part of that committee, but as mentioned in our previous update, we like Joel Peralta to get the next save chance, with Jake McGee and Juan Carlos Oviedo…
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Grant Balfour on the verge of losing closer gig
June 9, 2014 Tampa Bay Rays – Grant Balfour gave up five more runs on Sunday and now has a 6.46 ERA. Joe Maddon wouldn’t say if Balfour had finally lost the job that he should’ve lost a long time ago, but it seems silly to keep running him out there. Until we see evidence…