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Stopper comes in to "STOP" the rally. Hence the name. Not really a long relief guy, and truthfully no definitive time of when he should or shouldn't pitch.
Bases loaded with 1 out in a tight game and you could really use a strikeout or groundball? That's stopper territory. Regardless of if it's the 5th inning or the 8th inning.
Should have filthy, nasty stuff as he needs to get strikeouts without allowing runners to advance. Again, hence the name - stopper. Usually I wouldn't expect him to be a multi-inning guy only because the stuff tends to be less nasty when asked to pitch longer.
I'd basically consider him your 2nd nastiest reliver outside of the closer - able to be deployed at the stickiest situation in the game, whenever that may be
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