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Brewers manager Ned Yost knew people would have called for his scalp again had Eric Gagne blown the game tonight against Los Angeles. Gagne returned after a two-day "mental break" to record the save in the Brewers' 5-3 victory. But Yost said he wasn't going to worry about covering his butt just because people would have gone nuts."I wasn't going to not pitch him just because people thought I'm ... [link]

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Gagne returned to closers role
Published 5/14/2008 by Eric Stashin at Rotoprofessor
Eric Gagne Well, that didn’t take long.  According to Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (click here for his post), the Milwaukee Brewers have returned Eric Gagne to the closers role after just a few days off.  He picked up the save in last night’s game. Yost was quoted as saying, “I felt (Monday) was really good for him. He came out of it with a real positive feeling. He felt really good today.” It seems like the Brewers are going to stick with him for now.  Unless your league values middle relievers, Salomon Torres, David Riske and Guillermo Mota hold little ...

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Published 5/19/2008 by ruffian96 (noreply@blogger.com) at The Rogue Hour
... Lots of pitching changes. Gagne took a couple nights off as closer to clear his head or recharge or whatever, got jealous when Mota got his first career save, came back and actually looked recharged against the Dodgers. Who knows maybe that's the only thing that drives him, he wants to be acknowledged as 'the man'. David Riske hit the DL with an elbow injury and Mark DeFelice is called up to take his spot. DeFelice is 31 years old and has been in the minors 11 years without a call-up so any type of success on his part would be a 'The Rookie' type scenario. Wild ball throwing ...

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