It’s time to make Archie Bradley the closer

[Editor’s note: This was written before Bradley allowed the go-ahead run in this afternoon’s game. So, I’m blaming Jack for that - Jim]

I’m not the first person to make the call for the Diamondbacks to turn the closer’s role over to Archie Bradley, and move Brad Boxberger to one of the setup roles. In fact in the past when others made this call, I countered they shouldn’t fix what’s not broken. But my reasons for doing it now might be slightly different than others.

While many imagine a “fireman” role, where Archie is deployed to fill the breach in the highest leverage situations, and get multiple outs when needed, the truth is he’s mostly being used as a typical 8th inning setup man.

He was…