A compromise could be "semi-forcing" a role with multiple inning stints.
Edit:
There are a couple of threads on this. Before the advent of strict closers the stopper was the closer in that he got the majority of saves, games finished, and took some losses. Managers at that time used them until they weren't available and then used the next guy in line.
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...hlight=stopper
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...hlight=stopper
I'm still not convinced that stopper was exclusively a RP. Are there news reports from the 70's and 80's referencing Fingers and Gossage as "stoppers"? I saw the term applied to SP in the 1960's and 70's
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...hlight=stopper
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