Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Favorite Fall-Into Closers

Every year closers emerge who no one would have thought would be the closer.

Most times this occurs due to ineffectiveness and/or injury, but sometimes it occurs because the regular closer is so good that teams do not care about the 8th inning guy.

Think about how much teams paid for the guy behind Mariano Rivera.

Right now, the closers that fit that bill are Big Mo', Trevor Hoffman, Billy Wagner and Jason Isringhausen.

The criteria I use to determine that list? It takes longer than a split second to think who the back-up closer would be.

As such, I think the back-ups, assuming I even name them correctly, would be nice fall-into candidates or very deep saves sleepers.

They are Scott Linebrink, Braden Looper, Kyle Farnsworth and Duaner Sanchez - not exactly Viagra for a flaccid Roto team, are they?.

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