03-09-2020, 04:44 AM
(03-08-2020, 12:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I started to make a post about how the bullpen regressed last year, but the numbers (ERA, WHIP, save percentage, OPS allowed) are pretty much the same the same as 2018.
The worst thing about the bullpen last year was the downfall of two pitchers, Hernandez and Hughes and to a lesser degree, Duke. Had they remained just average instead of falling off the cliff the Reds bullpen would have been much stronger, maybe even top of the league, but Bell kept throwing all three out there game after game after game until they proved to be almost completely ineffective. They had to rely on Romano, Mella, Peralta and others.
I think this season we'll see a much better bullpen or at least I certainly hope so.
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