flyingswoosh Wrote:no offense at all, but you haven't been paying close attention. tyler walker (who has always looked awful for us) has emerged as the closer. ever since he got put in the role he has had 6 save opportunites and converted all of them. in those 6 saves he has gone 6.1 Innings and allowed 1 baserunner (a walk), and 0 runs. dave righetti has taught him to take a couple of MPH off of his 96 MPH fastball, and it's paid off. we've won 4 in a row and the starting pitching has been great.

None taken. I don't follow every team in baseball like some here do, so you'll have to excuse my ignorance from time to time. But I thought I just read a blurb about Fassero being moved to the pen (with Schmidt back in the rotation) as a part-time closer to relieve Walker.

Plus the Giants were one of the few teams reported to have some interests in Graves.

bernero was great again tonight. he now has an ERA of 4.03. that's a closer in the making. maybe he could be as good as the geniuses in our bullpen.

flyingswoosh Wrote:bernero was great again tonight. he now has an ERA of 4.03. that's a closer in the making. maybe he could be as good as the geniuses in our bullpen.

Bernero will not be the closer. It looks like Reitsma is going to get the job full-time.

GDawgs88 Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:bernero was great again tonight.  he now has an ERA of 4.03.  that's a closer in the making.  maybe he could be as good as the geniuses in our bullpen.

Bernero will not be the closer. It looks like Reitsma is going to get the job full-time.

just as always, you guys are not built to win in the post season.

kolb was... well, i can't even describe it anymore.

flyingswoosh Wrote:kolb was... well, i can't even describe it anymore.

What an embarrassment. Leave the [] in Washington.

flyingswoosh Wrote:

GDawgs88 Wrote:

flyingswoosh Wrote:bernero was great again tonight.  he now has an ERA of 4.03.  that's a closer in the making.  maybe he could be as good as the geniuses in our bullpen.

Bernero will not be the closer. It looks like Reitsma is going to get the job full-time.

just as always, you guys are not built to win in the post season.

As always? We've had a year where we were the best offensive team in the league and had the best 'pen by far. Other years, we've had lights out starting pitching. There's not one thing that you can put your finger on that keeps us from advancing every year.

JoltinJacket Wrote:As always? We've had a year where we were the best offensive team in the league and had the best 'pen by far. Other years, we've had lights out starting pitching. There's not one thing that you can put your finger on that keeps us from advancing every year.

they were not a postseason team. when did they have the dominating closer combined with everything else, except when they had wohlers? how else do you explain a team going to the playoffs and winning the WS once? bad luck? hardly.

flyingswoosh Wrote:how else do you explain a team going to the playoffs and winning the WS once? bad luck? hardly.

If Lonnie Smith is paying attention in Game 7 in the '91 World Series we have two rings. If Wohlers doesn't hang a slider to Leyritz in '96 we have three. Poor play has hurt as at times, but you can't say we haven't had some tough breaks.

As for this year, if JS does not upgrade the bullpen the playoffs, let alone the World Series, aren't even a discussion. I almost tore my house apart tonight. I can't even discuss on this forum my hatred for Dank Olb right now.