July 9, 2017
St. Louis Cardinals — Seung-Hwan Oh pitched a scoreless ninth to pick up his eighteenth save of the season. After giving way to Trevor Rosenthal for a few save opportunities, Oh has received the last two save chances and converted both. Rosenthal had his chance, but it looks like Oh has asserted himself as the closer again, so we will drop the committee asterisk.
Hierarchy remains: Oh | Rosenthal | Cecil.
New York Mets – Fernando Salas continued to struggle yesterday, as he gave up another run and pitched with the Mets losing. It’s hard to imagine the Mets using Salas to protect any type of lead, but they don’t have a lot of other good options. Paul Sewald has picked up a couple holds in July so we move him into Salas’ spot on the hierarchy. Injured closer Jeurys Familia is expected to begin throwing during the All-Star break, but there is still no real time table for his return.
Updated hierarchy: Reed | Blevins | Sewald.
VULTURE SAVE WATCH
Today
1. Pedro Baez – Kenley Jansen has pitched in two straight, and four of five.
2. Brad Hand – Brandon Maurer has pitched in two straight, and three of four.
3. Trevor Rosenthal – Seung-Hawn Oh has pitched in four of the past five games.
4. Brad Boxberger – Alex Colome has pitched in two of the past three, including a 30 pitch outing yesterday.
Monday – No Games
