Bob Wickman has been on the Rotocommetariat's list of Closer's Most Likely to Lose Their Job for years now.
Like a blind squirrel finding a nut, eventually they will be right. Thsi was the year I thought it could finally occur.
With a fireballer in Francisco Cabrera in the 8th inning and Wickman coming off a careeer season at 36, I intuited the planets were aligning.
Was ever wrong! The entire Cleveland bullpen sucks, including Cabrera.
The only good one is Bob Wickman. Rafeal Betancourt would be the back-up closer by default. He is the only other reliever not named "Bob Wickman" with an ERA under 5.00.
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I agree with you. Wickman is unbelievable. Every save for him is as follows: 1 walk, 1 hit, 0 k's and a save. And nobody is taking his job away from him this year - he had 24 consecutive saves dating back to last year before this past week. You can also count on one hand the amount of times that Wickman may pitch when it is not a save situation. They don't even warm him up unless it is a save. Plus, when Cleveland finally heats up like they do every year, he'll still end up with over 30 saves.
take a closer look at Cabrera's game log. of the 14 runs he's given up this year, 9 of them occurred in the first 4 games when he was hurt (including 6 on a n awful opening night) and then he gave up 2 more in his first two games back from the DL while he shook the rust off. since then he's gone 13.2 IP allowing 3 runs with 14 Ks and only 8 hits. Yes, he has 11 BBs mixed in, but he seems like a total "buy low" candidate right now, esp. if Wickman finally falters or throws out his back or something.
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