ontariostreet.blogspot.com - 5/20/2008
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Manager Eric Wedge and his current approach to Cleveland's bullpen.
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Bull***: Part I
Tribe Report —
... Japan. The Front Office was very familiar with the volatility of relief pitching, but the pros appeared to outweigh the cons with the Tribe’s bullpen core heading into 2008. Like every off-season, risk assessment is a big part of deciding how heavily to lean on certain players and how much money to spend. Cleveland took a gamble with Joe Borowski’s arm and it backfired; there’s not much else to it. The team certainly didn’t go in without a backup plan though, far from it. In fact, I advocated making Kobayashi the closer once Borowski went down (oops). Masa was added as depth ...
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