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	<title>Comments on: Buying A Bullpen: How Do The Jays Compare?</title>
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		<title>By: Dave Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the teams here, it seems like most bullpen groups are a little top-heavy. Tampa Bay bucked the trend some, but they&#039;re unique in a lot of ways. I mean, their entire bullpen costs less than half of what Craig Kimbrel makes. But if bullpens are top-heavy, it&#039;s at least a little by design. It really seems like players like having defined roles, and knowing when they&#039;ll come in, and the nice thing about top-heavy bullpens is that the important roles are well defined. Kansas City has been regimented, and they&#039;ve won a bunch with it, so of course they&#039;ll keep doing it. And any historical attempt at &quot;bullpen-by-committee&quot; by a winning team has been shelved quickly. Only a few of Joe Maddon&#039;s Tampa Bay teams have managed to do it with any success.

I think you&#039;re right in that the Jays will probably need another &quot;reliable&quot; reliever to supplement the three (or two, depending on what you think of Storen, I&#039;m a little skittish so far) they&#039;ve got. I tend to think you can find those guys- the Jays unearthed Liam Hendriks last year, and they may be trying to strike similar gold with Floyd, or Chavez (who will probably start some games at some point).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking at the teams here, it seems like most bullpen groups are a little top-heavy. Tampa Bay bucked the trend some, but they&#8217;re unique in a lot of ways. I mean, their entire bullpen costs less than half of what Craig Kimbrel makes. But if bullpens are top-heavy, it&#8217;s at least a little by design. It really seems like players like having defined roles, and knowing when they&#8217;ll come in, and the nice thing about top-heavy bullpens is that the important roles are well defined. Kansas City has been regimented, and they&#8217;ve won a bunch with it, so of course they&#8217;ll keep doing it. And any historical attempt at &#8220;bullpen-by-committee&#8221; by a winning team has been shelved quickly. Only a few of Joe Maddon&#8217;s Tampa Bay teams have managed to do it with any success.</p>
<p>I think you&#8217;re right in that the Jays will probably need another &#8220;reliable&#8221; reliever to supplement the three (or two, depending on what you think of Storen, I&#8217;m a little skittish so far) they&#8217;ve got. I tend to think you can find those guys- the Jays unearthed Liam Hendriks last year, and they may be trying to strike similar gold with Floyd, or Chavez (who will probably start some games at some point).</p>
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		<title>By: Arjonn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if the Jays&#039; group isn&#039;t top-heavy, and how much this might hurt them. It&#039;s pretty common to see people focus on teams&#039; top three relievers, as if they always pitch the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. But how often does that actually happen? IDK, but I suspect it&#039;s a lot less than &quot;all the time&quot;. So it&#039;s interesting to see an article that looks at how the Jays&#039; entire pen compares.

In a somewhat related vein, one thing that doesn&#039;t seem to get mentioned very often is the importance of a quality #4 RP. If we look at KC as the prototype, losing Holland didn&#039;t cripple or even severely hurt them because they had Madson step up plus Hochevar to take over the #4 role. Granted both of them were question marks at this point last year, it seems like the Jays are in a similar situation, needing one or two of their &quot;other&quot; RPs to out-perform expectations.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if the Jays&#8217; group isn&#8217;t top-heavy, and how much this might hurt them. It&#8217;s pretty common to see people focus on teams&#8217; top three relievers, as if they always pitch the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. But how often does that actually happen? IDK, but I suspect it&#8217;s a lot less than &#8220;all the time&#8221;. So it&#8217;s interesting to see an article that looks at how the Jays&#8217; entire pen compares.</p>
<p>In a somewhat related vein, one thing that doesn&#8217;t seem to get mentioned very often is the importance of a quality #4 RP. If we look at KC as the prototype, losing Holland didn&#8217;t cripple or even severely hurt them because they had Madson step up plus Hochevar to take over the #4 role. Granted both of them were question marks at this point last year, it seems like the Jays are in a similar situation, needing one or two of their &#8220;other&#8221; RPs to out-perform expectations.</p>
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