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I'm still so pissed off with Casilla's blown save last night, blowing the Giants' lead after the Giants worked hard to come back from being down 2-5 at the mid-point of the game.
And I'm even more pissed off when I looked at the live odds of +758 for San Diego to win the game after Posey's solo HR that put the Giants ahead in the top of the 10th inning.
I already knew that Casilla was extremely shaky and I just wish that I had put a unit right away on the Padres @ +758 odds, man!
In this thread, I want to focus on which closer would be good to fade today, should they come out.
If you have 5 plays fading home-team closers at average odds of, say, +800 each, you'd make money if one of those 5 blows a save.
I'd post a link that has the bullpen/closer rankings, but Covers is anal about links like that, so you'll have to use your own links for the bullpen/closer stats.
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, who then hands it over to some gas can Reliever- 
(with the possible exception in NY, but just give them time)- who in a matter of 5 minutes, or 5 pitches, completely 180's EVERYTHING you have succeeded in accomplishing. And it's not something that occasionally happens- it's EVERY DAMN NIGHT, and usually a couple games a night. And for the most part, it's not just a single one time mistake, but a multitude of them, and not by some minion, but by the Ace Closers that are getting paid MILLIONS and should be expected to come out and do their jobs EVERY NIGHT (and no excuses that this or that Reliever can't be used because he threw 20 pitches the night before
., but that's another issue for another Thread.
), the D-Backs weren't exactly knocking the skin off the ball either with only 4 hits through the eighth when they brought Jansen in and got the first out, only to give up a single to Bourn, then got Goldschmidt to pop out and was so excited that he allowed Bourn to steal second and was so focused on that, he grooved one to Lamb, who crushed a deep double allowing Bourn to easily score the D-Backs first run of the game. He then struck out Tomas and was so spent that God forbid that he could come out and pitch more than one inning. But why should he overexert himself for the measly $10.65 million he's getting paid this year. And btw, they were quick to point out that this was ONLY Jansens 4th blown Save this year through half a season
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