Last week, with a minor closer controversy brewing (though quickly settled), Brady and Sami asked if it was time for me to bring back McCovey Chronicles’ Bullpen Trust Power Rankings. I said, “Well, that was not one of my running series, that was Doug Bruzzone’s.” To which they replied, “Oh dang! Sorry, we thought you had written something good once.” Then I said, “Well, let me ask him if we could pick it up again.”
Doug, a cool dude who was my longtime co-host on McCovey Chronicles’ podcast, The McCovey Chroncast, and who writes about the San Francisco Giants over on his Substack, got back to me after I reached out:
If you want to be the one who curses members of the bullpen by ranking them first, then feel free.