Bullpen Report: May 31, 2016

A few quick notes from Memorial Day:

• It wouldn’t be an authentic Bullpen Report without bad news out of Cincinnati’s bullpen as Tony Cingrani blew his fourth save last night. Cingrani entered the ninth like a regular old closer but was unable to finish the inning after allowing four baseruners and three earned runs. Ross Ohlendorf threw a perfect eighth and JC Ramirez was able to get the final out for his first big league save. As usual this situation is ridiculously fluid with Ohlendorf and Cingrani likely still in some sort of job-share for the moment.

• Huston Street was activated off of the Disabled List and should be activated in all fantasy leagues immediately. Joe Smith and Fernando Salas will go back to their familiar roles in the seventh and eighth.

On to Tuesday:

• Joseph Biagini picked up his third win of the season tonight after throwing a scoreless seventh picking up two strikeouts. He doesn’t have such spectacular swing and miss stuff (if he did he probably would have been protected in the Rule-5 draft) but after tonight he’s supporting a fantastic 0.86/2.35/3.64 ERA/FIP/xFIP line and I’ve moved him ahead of Drew Storen in the grid. At this rate I’d also place Jesse Chavez ahead of Storen with those two and Gavin Floyd representing the bridge to Roberto Osuna. You also have to wonder if another team will take a shot on Storen and see if a change of scenery will help. His underlying numbers suggest a non-awful reliever and there would be some value in taking a flier on him.

• While the word was that Boxberger would return to the ninth soon after returning from the DL, he got his first action of the season in the sixth inning tonight. Unfortunately for Boxberger owners he was both ineffective (three baserunners, two earned) and left the game with a “left side muscle strain.” You always have to temper expectations with someone returning from injury and Boxberger will be evaluated by the Rays but his chances of getting the ninth inning soon seem to be more distant now. Expect the excellent Alex Colome to resume closing in Tampa Bay.

Closer Grid:

	Closer	First	Second	DL/Minors
Arizona	Brad Ziegler	Daniel Hudson	Tyler Clippard
Atlanta	Arodys Vizcaino	Jason Grilli	Hunter Cervenka
Baltimore	Zach Britton	Darren O’Day	Mychal Givens
Boston	Craig Kimbrel	Koji Uehara	Junichi Tazawa
CHI (NL)	Hector Rondon	Pedro Strop	Justin Grimm
CHI (AL)	David Robertson	Nate Jones	Zach Duke
Cincy	Tony Cingrani	Ross Ohlendorf	Blake Woodf	Jumbo Diaz
Cleveland	Cody Allen	Bryan Shaw	Dan Otero
Colorado	Jake McGee	Carlos Estevez	Jason Motte
Detroit	Francisco Rodriguez	Mark Lowe	Justin Wilson	Bruce Rondon
Houston	Luke Gregerson	Will Harris	Ken Giles
KC	Wade Davis	Kelvin Herrera	Joakim Soria
LAA	Huston Street	Joe Smith	Fernando Salas	Huston Street
LAD	Kenley Jansen	Pedro Baez	Joe Blanton	Yimi Garcia
Miami	A.J. Ramos	David Phelps	Kyle Barraclough	Carter Capps
Milwaukee	Jeremy Jeffress	Tyler Thornburg	Michael Blazek	Will Smith
Minnesota	Kevin Jepsen	Fernando Abad	Michael Tonkin	Glen Perkins
NY (NL)	Jeurys Familia	Addison Reed	Hansel Robles
NY (AL)	Aroldis Chapman	Andrew Miller	Dellin Betances
Oakland	Ryan Madson	Sean Doolittle	John Axford
Philly	Jeanmar Gomez	Hector Neris	David Hernandez
Pittsburgh	Mark Melancon	Tony Watson	Neftali Feliz
St. Louis	Trevor Rosenthal	Kevin Siegrist	Seung Hwan Oh
SD	Fernando Rodney	Brandon Maurer	Ryan Buchter
SF	Santiago Casilla	Cody Gearrin	Hunter Strickland	Sergio Romo
Seattle	Steve Cishek	Joaquin Benoit	Joel Peralta
TB	Alex Colome	Erasmo Ramirez	Xavier Cedeno	Brad Boxberger
Texas	Sam Dyson	Jake Diekman	Matt Bush	Keone Kela
Toronto	Roberto Osuna	Gavin Floyd	Joseph Biagini	Brett Cecil
Wash.	Jonathan Papelbon	Blake Treinen	Shawn Kelley

[Green light, yellow light, red light: the colors represent the volatility of the bullpen order.]