Tag: Texas Rangers
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Monkey Bytes | June 8
Saturday’s slate featured a bevy of high-leverage situations. Relievers recorded nine wins, though two followed blown saves at the top of the inning, and seven saves while suffering six losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB Jeff Hoffman 15 18 72.2 27.8 1:0 Kenley Jansen 14 14…
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Monkey Bytes | June 6
Could a historic meltdown be the downfall of Raisel Iglesias as Atlanta’s closer? Time will tell. He’s insulated by a lack of talent in his team’s leverage ladder. However, Thursday’s loss was rough: As a result, the team will promote Craig Kimbrel from Triple-A. He went 1-1 while recording three saves with a 1.091 WHIP…
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Monkey Bytes | June 2
Sunday’s slate provided five wins, though one was accompanied by a blown save (Andrés Muñoz) and ten saves. Relief pitchers were also tagged with four losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB Robert Suarez 19 11 63.6 9.1 2:0 Josh Hader 15 14 71.4 28.6 2:0 Emmanuel…
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Monkey Bytes | May 31
Friday’s full slate resulted in four wins by relievers and nine saves while suffering four losses. There were a couple of surprises during leverage events and a career-first save. Here is our condensed chart: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB Robert Suarez 18 19 68.4 10.5 3:0 Kyle Finnegan 16 22 63.6 13.6 0:0…
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Monkey Bytes | May 29
Things were frenetic during Wednesday’s slate, with Bob Melvin announcing a change at closer for the San Francisco Giants. Camilo Doval will replace Ryan Walker as we advance based on this year’s performance by each reliever. Wednesday’s full slate was reduced by one with a postponement in Philadelphia, which will be played as a split…