Over the course of the entire season, insofar as there has been any one storyline hanging over the year it has seemingly been the bullpen. Now, that is not the same as saying it has been the reason for the disappointing year — that has been the rotation if you have to nail it down to one area of the roster — but it has been the narrative with this team starting basically as soon as last offseason started. The bullpen has been up-and-down this year, but it’s hard to ignore the down moments largely because, well, a bullpen’s down moments almost exclusively cost the team wins in wildly noticeable ways.
Brandon Workman has been nearly impossible to hit
