Diamondbacks Relievers Are Making History…and Not for a Good Reason

By Evan Thompson
How a team’s relief corps performs in the late innings of a tie game or while holding a narrow lead shows their true value. Some relievers are there for mop-up duty; some are there to keep their team from falling farther behind so their hitters have a chance to come back. But the truly elite find themselves on the mound in late innings while holding a narrow lead or in a tie game. The Arizona Diamondbacks relievers have not found themselves in that situation very often, given the team’s dreadful record. But when they have been in that situation, they have struggled mightily. So much, in fact, that they are doing something that has never been done before, as far as we know.

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