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The trouble with closers …

New York Yankees found this 6/10/2008 on yankees.lhblogs.com

I’m in Houston connecting for a flight, so I don’t have time to break down the numbers. But Mariano Rivera has been just about perfect in save situations and far from it otherwise. Closers are such creatures of habit that it almost throws them when there’s not a lead to protect. It’s not just him, either.