Category: Tigers
Posted by Tom Gage (The Detroit News) on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:59 PMRodney's blown saves
That's six in 16 save situations, but overall, the Tigers have now blown 25 of 56 save opportunities.
They are 70-80, have lost six in a row while the Royals have won five in a row. As a result, the Tiger are only 3 1/2 games out of LAST.
What do you think will happen if "that" happens?
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blown saves is a bunk argument
Year after year the Tigers have been notorious for blown leads. Why don't they do something to improve that? I've been around long enough to know this blown save business has been going on more than 40 years.
Say Goodby
it is time to say goodby to Leyland and his staff--they have lost their team and have failed to do anything about it--you sportwriters like to protect Leyland but he has wasted the Tigers biggest payrole in history and he must go-there is plenty of talent left to contend with a new manager like Lou Pinella did with the Cubs--Dombrowski is next after Leyland goes!!bring back an experienced manager like Trammel--he learned from the Cubs!!
blown saves is a bunk argument
before Rodney was given the closers job, he never appeared in the 9th inning, but b/c of how the save rule is written, him giving up the lead to a tie or 1 run in the 7th or 8th amounts to a blown save 5 times. The save rule has to be switched to a flat out, a reliever finishes the 9th inning with 3 run lead or less.
Last night, Rodney hadn't pitched in a week. That is definately the fault of Jim Leyland. Unless Rodney had some shoulder soreness we don't know, this is what Leyland would do to Jones: Jones would sit for weeks, then finally appear and he wouldn't be very good and we'd all just conclude that Jones isn't good in some situations. NO! Jones is very good, but when a reliever doesn't pitch for two weeks, you can't expect him to be on his game just b/c he's "rested."
Zumaya as well, only appeared in the 9th twice, but he's credited with more than 2 blown saves on the year. Don't look at the save totals on the year, b/c we know they're not as bad as that looks. The rule is written weird, and also this isn't Jones or Rodney being the closer all year, this is the entire bullpen in situations where not even Bud Selif would know its a save opportunity
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