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Il BuonO Hangout Grand Counsel

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Buck's putting JJ into consecutive games...allowing a negative streak like this to continue with no rest/shelter...is inexcusable. Almost sadistic.

Idk, I really thought he was doing him a favor by bringing him in three runs down with no pressure no game on the line.

He's just no good right now.

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Idk, I really thought he was doing him a favor by bringing him in three runs down with no pressure no game on the line.

He's just no good right now.

He's never been particularly great.

Even in his lock down prime he was still making it interesting.

He's just not a major league closer. He doesn't have that type of stuff.

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It's hard to compete for the WC when your closer having a subpar season.

A true statement, especially when your manager slavishly and blindly follows the "save rule" and brings in the closer in every save situation possible rather and takes absolutely nothing else (matchups, having pitched the day before, etc) into account. Basically the manager hugely inflates the importance of one particular player to the team, so when that one player underachieves it hurts the team far more than it should.

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