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Baseball Musings
May 23, 2005
Easy Save

The Braves gave Danny Kolb another chance at a save tonight. It was an easy sitution, with Kolb entering the game with a three-run lead in the 9th. Danny didn't do much to impress. He held the lead, but gave up a run on a solo shot, two other hits and a walk. I doubt that an inning like that will change minds in the Braves organization.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:25 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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This is why Baseball Digest recommends that the save rule apply only for a two-run lead, not a three-run lead.

Posted by: Yankee Despiser at May 24, 2005 09:15 AM

Braves made a mistake in moving John Smoltz to starting rotation since they didn't acquire a rock solid closer like Smoltz. Leo Mazzone will be doing a lot of rocking any time that Danny Kolb enters a game. He seems to always allow at least 2 baserunners every game he pitches.

Posted by: Andrew Godfrey at May 24, 2005 01:16 PM

Well at least Fran Healy thought he did a good job last night because he struck out three Mets in the inning.

Then again besides being the worst announcer for any team in any major sport, Fran Healy knows next to nothing about baseball.

He appeared awfully shaky to me, and probably had walked Cameron on the pitch that was called strike 3 (it was low and outside). That would have been his last batter as Cox would definitely have brought in Foster to face the lefty Floyd. As a Met fan, I actually look foward to Kolb coming into the game. Even more so if he enters with men on base, becasue he never seems to get the first batter he faces.

Posted by: Lou Recupero at May 24, 2005 03:57 PM

Kolb doesn't strike out enough people to be an effective closer. Closers need to be able to strike out batters, and Kolb has such a low number of K/9 that he's probably better off being a middle reliever than he is a closer. Adam Bernero's likely to become the closer for Atlanta soon, but Bobby wants to see how the other relivers fare in the 9th inning closer role first. I think after it's all saif and done Bernero will have the closing job and Kolb will probably be the 7th inning guy with John Foster setting up Bernero.

Posted by: Jared Buck at May 28, 2005 02:41 AM
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