The Good Phight · Feb 27, 2018
2018 Phillies Preview: Bullpen
Major league baseball is a high-profile profession that millions of people imbue with great importance. But within the game, there’s probably no role as anonymous or irrelevant as “relief pitcher on a bad team.” For one thing, if you do that job particularly well, you probably won’t do it for very long (see Ken Giles two winters ago, and Pat Neshek last summer). Of course, that’s also true if you’re notably bad at it; with apologies to anyone who ate before reading this, consider the names Brett Oberholzer, Frank Herrmann, and Michael Mariot, all of whom darkened the bullpen door in 2016.