Izzy or isn't he? (flag)
www.vivaelbirdos.com — In considering the Izzy situation, I’m less ready than others to write his obit just yet. He’s had some bad outings, to be sure, but we forget that he was pretty good as the year began. He didn’t just lose it between April 9 and April 12 of this year. What’s interesting is that the year started with him coming out like gangbusters – he pitched in 6 of the ...
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Game Over? Gagne’s Descent Dissected
Can't Stop The Bleeding — It’s been a tough week for some of the glamor names in the relief pitching business. Aaron Heilman, just two seasons removed from being one of the game’s premier set-up men, was booed lustily at Shea yesterday during an inauspicious mop-up assignment.  Joba Chamberlain bounced back from blowing a save against the Indians and found himself critiqued by that conscience of all-things-Yankee, Goose Gossage.  Jason Isringhausen pulled himself from the Cards’ closer role.  Boston’s Jonathan Papelbon blew a pair of saves in a row (the ...

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