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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
[*]It's relatively easy for a middle reliever to get multiple star ratings in this game, for one reason or another. Don't forget that by default they are rated against each other rather than against all players in this regard. Middle relievers are the bottom of the barrel and there are usually tons of them floating around.
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Not all of us undervalue middle relievers. I love building a bullpen around as many hard throwing high SO/9 pitchers that I can get my hands on. I always make sure I have at least 3 good middle relievers at all times. I currently have David Robertson, Steve Chisek and Huston Street. I've also got a prospect I really like, but he can't get his ERA into single digits yet in the bigs (but, it's small sample size and he only has a handful of major league appearances so far), but hopefully he will pan out. Then, when I get to dump Mariano Rivera and his almost 6 ERA at the end of this season, I am pretty certain that I will go with a pure middle reliever bullpen and stick whoever's available at the moment into the 9th inning in any particular game.