Are You Feeling Lucky? Colorado Rockies Closer Carousel
July 1st, 2007 by pat
Colorado Rockies skipper Clint Hurdle has decided to give Brian Fuentes a temporary break from his closing duties. Are you feeling lucky and need saves? Roll the dice on a couple of failed closers in LaTroy Hawkins and Jorge Julio…or take a flier on the upside of Manny Corpas.
Fuentes has been serving up batting practice of late; 2 1/3 innings pitched, 19 batters faced, 11 hits surrendered…including back to back nights of walk-off home runs.
Look for Fuentes to regain the closers role in the near future, and for the Rockies to utilize a closer-by-committee platoon in the meantime.
Tough to say who might be the best option to pick-up for a quick saves injection. Julio has previous closing experience, although not all that effective, and has pitched well of late (his season numbers are a bit scary though). Corpas has nice upside, but no real closing experience.
If you pick up Julio, temper your expectations and plan on at least one “bad ERA day”.
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