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Nah, the 8th inning set up role for the closer is, well, Set Up. The Stopper role is more for your primary reliever in eras previous to the late 1980s when you used that guy not just to preserve save situations in the 9th but to preserve wins and try to win out ties any time after the 7th or 8th inning. You’d expect these guys to throw, say, 70 games and 120 innings, not 60 and 70-80. Think (or, if you’re not old enough, look up) Dan Quisenberry or Willie Hernandez (or, earlier, Hoyt Wilhelm or, for an extreme example, Mike Marshall).
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