Bullpen Report: April 26, 2021

by Jon Becker

April 26, 2021

Notable Workloads: Primary closers or valuable members of a closer committee who have been deemed unavailable or likely unavailable for the current day due to recent workload.
Injury News
Outlier Saves: Explanation for a non-closer earning a save during the previous day.
Committee Clarity: Notes on a closer committee that clarify a pitcher’s standing in the group.
Losing A Grip: Struggling closers who could be on the hot seat.

The “RosterResource” link will take you to the corresponding team’s RosterResource depth chart, which will give you a better picture of the full bullpen and results of the previous six days (pitch count, save, hold, win, loss, blown save).

Notable Workloads

•Alex Reyes, STL: 25 pitches on Sunday. | RosterResource

If Reyes is unavailable on Monday, Giovanny Gallegos is the top option to fill in.

Injury News

None

Outlier Saves

•Tyler Rogers, SFG | RosterResource

Manager Gabe Kapler said he was trying to avoid using Jake McGee on Sunday after he combined for 35 pitches between Thursday and Friday, so it was the submarining Rogers brought in with a two-run lead in the ninth. Rogers gave up three hits and a run but was able to induce a Jazz Chisholm grounder with two runners on to earn his second save of the season.

Committee Clarity

•Bryan Garcia, DET | RosterResource

Garcia was brought on in the fifth inning, ending up throwing 1.1 innings while the Tigers were trailing. He hadn’t pitched since Wednesday so it’s possible that the Tigers were just looking to ensure that he got some work in, but this also seems to solidify Gregory Soto’s position as the top ninth-inning option for Detroit.

•Scott Barlow, KCR | RosterResource

Barlow didn’t actually pitch on Sunday, but it’s worth noting that he was warming up in the top of the ninth inning with a two-run lead. Wade Davis ended up entering when the Royals added two more runs. Barlow’s appears to be one of the Royals’ top candidates for save chances, along with Josh Staumont (who was probably unavailable to work a third straight game on Sunday) and Greg Holland.

•Sean Doolittle, CIN | RosterResource

Doolittle—currently shown on the Reds’ RosterResource page as co-closers with Lucas Sims—pitched the bottom of the eighth with the Reds down by two runs, giving up a run on two hits. The Reds have lost seven in a row now, so we don’t have much to go off of in a bullpen with all of its back-end arms struggling. Amir Garrett and Tejay Antone are arms to watch along with Sims.

Losing A Grip

None

Not Very Stable

Hot Seat

Committee

Bullpen Report — 4/25/2021

Team	Closer	First Up	Second Up	Injured List
ARI	Stefan Crichton	Kevin Ginkel	Yoan Lopez	Joakim Soria
ATL	Will Smith	A.J. Minter	Tyler Matzek	Chris Martin
BAL	Cesar Valdez	Tanner Scott	Dillon Tate	Hunter Harvey
BOS	Matt Barnes	Adam Ottavino	Darwinzon Hernandez	Ryan Brasier
CHC	Craig Kimbrel	Andrew Chafin	Brandon Workman	Rowan Wick
CWS	Liam Hendriks	Aaron Bummer	Garrett Crochet
CIN	Sean Doolittle	Lucas Sims	Tejay Antone
CLE	Emmanuel Clase	James Karinchak	Bryan Shaw
COL	Daniel Bard	Mychal Givens	Robert Stephenson
DET	Gregory Soto	Bryan Garcia	Buck Farmer
HOU	Ryan Pressly	Ryne Stanek	Brooks Raley	Enoli Paredes
KC	Greg Holland	Josh Staumont	Scott Barlow
LAA	Raisel Iglesias	Mike Mayers	Steve Cishek	Felix Peña
LAD	Kenley Jansen	Blake Treinen	Victor Gonzalez
MIA	Yimi Garcia	Dylan Floro	Anthony Bass
MIL	Josh Hader	Devin Williams	J.P. Feyereisen
MIN	Taylor Rogers	Alex Colome	Hansel Robles
NYM	Edwin Diaz	Trevor May	Miguel Castro
NYY	Aroldis Chapman	Chad Green	Jonathan Loaisiga	Zack Britton
OAK	Lou Trivino	Jake Diekman	J.B. Wendelken	Trevor Rosenthal
PHI	Hector Neris	Connor Brogdon	Brandon Kintzler	Jose Alvarado
PIT	Richard Rodriguez	Kyle Crick	Chris Stratton
STL	Alex Reyes	Giovanny Gallegos	Ryan Helsley
SD	Mark Melancon	Drew Pomeranz	Emilio Pagan	Keone Kela
SF	Jake McGee	Tyler Rogers	Wandy Peralta
SEA	Rafael Montero	Kendall Graveman	Keynan Middleton
TB	Diego Castillo	Ryan Thompson	Andrew Kittredge
TEX	Ian Kennedy	Joely Rodriguez	John King	Matt Bush
TOR	Rafael Dolis	David Phelps	Anthony Castro	Julian Merryweather
WSH	Brad Hand	Daniel Hudson	Tanner Rainey

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MRDXolmember

3 years ago

Crochet worked 3 innings today. He seems to be ticketed for more of a high leverage long-relief/stopper role than that of the traditional 1-inning backend guy, probably in line with CHW’s plan to stretch him out to a starter eventually. Heuer is probably the second guy up now, or maybe the first since Bummer’s really battled his control of late.

wobatus

2 years ago

Reply to MRDXol

I was going to say likewise. Also, interesting for hold leagues: ESPN and MLB.com have Crochet with 3 holds, including for last night. Fangraphs, CBS and yahoo have 1. Baseball reference has him with 2.

BR includes his April 18th appearance against Boston. He came in with a 3 run lead, two outs no one on against Boston, gave up a single but then K’d Hernandez and was done. Technically that would not have been a save situation, which for the “3 run lead” save requires an inning. And he didn’t face the tying runner on deck upon entering.

MLB and ESPN give him that one and last night, too. 3 innings, and if he’d finished the game, that’s a save. But MLB’s own glossary says you must enter with a save opportunity, and that doesn’t count by their definition of save opportunity. Still they gave it to him. I think because the definition is kind of wrong.