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First Pitch: Closer By Committee Approach Would Work Best For the Pirates in 2017

After the Mark Melancon trade, I wrote an article about how the Pirates were free to take a new approach with their bullpen now that they were free of their traditional closer. The article is probably most remembered as the article where I said the Pirates might have a better bullpen after the Melancon trade. Actually, "probably" isn't accurate. I get weekly comments saying that I claimed the bullpen would (not might) be better without Melancon, with no reference to the closer by committee concept.

My mistake here was taking a concept that had little chance of being implemented, and attaching a potential value to that concept.