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Why isn't he the Rangers closers yet? He has filthy stuff. Tolleson is a bum I get worried every time he comes in.

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we have a thread for rangers convo bro

Maybe I'm alone on this, but I much prefer individual threads on topics of interest. The idea that we need a single thread for all Rangers discussion all year is the worst recent development in this board over the last couple of years. Way to difficult to have a real conversation on something on there, when the discussion can be all over the place on in-game moments to theoretically strategy talks like this. I wish we had more individual threads like used to be more common a few years ago.

This. The save stat as it is now is useless, as is the "closer" role. Teams with a 3 run lead in the 9th win 99.9 percent of the time, 97.1 percent of the time with a one run lead in 9th as well.

Save your best pitcher for the highest leverage ABs, the game can be saved in the 7th when the starter leaves with a two run lead and two on with 1 out. Those pitches mean much more than a clean slate 1-2-3 9th inning.