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Cockcroft: The Great Closer Myth?

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN Games Fantasy Edge

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Good closers can come from bad teams. It's a statement that has been well-circulated the past decade, and one frequently attached to Bryan Harvey, a decent, but not great, reliever of the late 1980s and early 1990s who once set a major-league record by saving 70.3 percent of the Florida Marlins' 64 wins in their inaugural season of 1993. I'm not about to take anything away from Harvey's accomplishment; at the time, it was the seventh-best single-season total in baseball history, an impressive ...

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