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Relief Efforts: Does the Player Rater work for closers?

By Eric Karabell
ESPN.com

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

I feel like Alex Trebek promoting Player Rater week on "Jeopardy!" It's fantasy baseball, it's Relief Efforts, this … is … Jeopardy! In keeping with the theme of the week, in which cohorts James Quintong and Brendan Roberts have written articles using the ever-informative rating system, let's consider relief pitchers. This closer's birth name is Joseph Jason, and his current ERA is 5.21 … Who is … Antonio Alfonseca? Wrong, it's J.J. Putz! Just once I'd like to see Trebe ...

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