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Originally Posted by David Watts
The comedy of my Facebook page often brings me here for sanity. Evidently closers are easy to come by and the Tigers through the years have been turning great ones away in droves, while selecting the most obviously bad ones possible. Plus, if you want Kelvin Herrera, all you have to do is call the Royals and say so and he will magically appear as a Tiger. If you do have to trade someone for Herrera it's obvious to everyone but me that the Royals would probably take Kyle Ryan and Buck Farmer in return. Brad Ausmus is an idiot and he and he alone decided that Rodriguez should be a Tiger. It goes on and on and on.
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The problem to me is that they continually rely on over-priced near-washed up relievers. The price tag certainly must have something to do with the reluctance to change course when it is obviously not working.
I really don't know why more teams don't use a leverage model or at least close by committee with whoever is working at the moment bobbing to the top. Paying a closer for their glory days doesn't seem to work so well.