With a strong rotation in place, including a pair of starters that can and will throw complete games, the Cincinnati Bearcats don’t necessarily need a shutdown bullpen. Staff stalwarts Andrew Zellner and J.T. Perez combined for seven complete games last season and David Orndorff contributed one as well. Still, that left 49 games in which at least one more pitcher was needed. That means UC has not found some magic formula that will allow it not to dip into its bullpen. But how does that part of the roster shake out?
Three pitchers that we already discussed have experience pitching out of the pen.