Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 24, 2008
Pen Innovation

Daniel Drezner poses as the GM of the Red Sox and comes up with an excellent innovation:

Convert Justin Masterson into a three-inning closer. Here's an area where the Red Sox can make in innovation, or retrovation; bring back the three-inning closer. Masterson would be perfect in this role, and helps to give the bullpen a guaranteed rest day.

Bill James once described Bob Stanley as a long reliever who could actually pitch. Using Masterson in this role sounds like a great idea to me. He could easily pitch three inning every third game.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:02 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Too bad Daniel Drezner's article is riddled with typos, otherwise there are some decent ideas.

Posted by: Matt at December 25, 2008 02:32 AM

I think I'd stick with the kid currently at the back-end. He's done okay.

Posted by: deversm at December 25, 2008 11:31 AM

Yeah - I'm not 100% against the 2 inning closer role but they're pretty solid now with Okajima and Papelbon.

Posted by: Bandit at December 26, 2008 09:27 AM

Too bad Daniel Drezner's article is riddled with typos, otherwise there are some decent ideas.

Posted by: Matt at December 26, 2008 12:05 PM
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