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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
So the question is: how could a team use both a stopper and a closer? Aren't they, for all practical purposes, mutually exclusive?
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Rich has some pretty good stats there (I didn't realize those guys so often finished off games, I should go back and look at some game logs), but I don't think they're entirely mutually exclusive. I know I'd like multi-inning closers like how Rich showed Gossage and Fingers were, but I'd also like to see, for lack of another term, firemen. Rich calls them mythical and maybe game logs show that relievers weren't used like that all that often back in the day, but I do think we're starting to see them used like that now and I would like to see them in the game.