Tag: Robert Suarez
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Monkey Bytes | March 25
Although things seemed stable in Texas’ bullpen hierarchy, Bruce Bochy deployed a new usage pattern during high-leverage innings in the team’s game versus Kansas City on Monday. He suggested it could be “pretty close” to how he lines up high-leverage events this season, per Michael Bier on “X.” Closing out his first spring save, Luke…
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Monkey Bytes | March 23
Although this column focuses on the results from the previous day, it must be noted that two closers have not appeared in a spring contest in over a week. Robert Suarez last pitched in a spring training tilt on March 12. Trevor Megill has not pitched in a spring game since March 15. Let’s take…
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Closer Monkey’s Top 40 Closers (1.0)
Although context and league trends can be as important as rankings, going through tiers helps identify how the positional landscape appears. It must be noted that there are four camp competitions for the ninth inning: There are also muddled or potential timeshare situations for the following teams: With this in mind, and using tiers as…
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Monkey Bytes | March 13
Only four relievers recorded more than 35 saves last season, and two had rough outings with Opening Day two weeks away. Emmanuel Clase allowed four hits and three earned runs over two-thirds of an inning against San Francisco. Not to be outdone, Robert Suarez suffered his first loss, allowing five hits, four earned runs, and…
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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…