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Relief Efforts: Basic Strategy

By David Young
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

While starting pitchers get the big contracts and all of the glory, it's really the bullpen that has to make up for their mistakes and prevent their opponents from scoring in their last at-bats. Those bullpens are composed of pitchers from all walks of life: rookies too green to start next to injured starters trying to come back next to former starters approaching the ends of their careers. At the far end of the bench is the closer, a guy that, under normal circumstances, would be labeled a soc ...

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