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Relief Efforts: Volatile Closer Situations

By David Young
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Atlanta Braves: Bob Wickman is on the 15-day DL with an upper back strain, but what's troubling is his 10/9 BB/K ratio. I'm not buying just two weeks of vacation for Wickman this year, but we'll see. So who gets the saves while Wickman is out? Let's play Bobby Cox: PITCHER IP ERA WHIP K/9 K/BB Rafael Soriano 12.1 4.32 0.97 8.0 2.2 Mike Gonzalez 10.1 1.74 1.65 6.1 1.0 Soriano appears superior in every category except ERA, which comes from two games of three earned runs ...

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