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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5552682, member: 1969"] I think they were content to use their assets to add mid to high leverage relievers, but didn’t want to give a huge packagefor an elite closer or at least a perceived elite closer. They did ultimately add two relievers of the deadline Varland and Dominquez both good but neither elite or closer material I I know from the way their analytics department looks at things they didn’t want to give up multiple good assets for a closer I also think they thought they would have a good bullpen more through depth throughout the bullpen rather than quality right at the backend closer position Beyond adding Verland and Dominguez, they were expecting to get Yimi Garcia and possibly Nick Sandlin back from the DL. Garcia did come back for a few games, but he got hurt again right away and Sandler never made it back. Furthermore, Brandon little and Yariel Rodriguez had been extremely good relievers in the first half of the season. They were both probably in the top 20 relievers in the American league in the first half even though they were not closers. but they regressed heavily probably because they were overused in the first half and little‘s approach was figured out. Rodriguez was not even on the World Series roster a little was not trusted anymore. So in retrospect, adding an elite closer could have make the difference, but that wasn’t gonna be a fit with management philosophy. And thee we will figure it out with high quantity of quality relievers approach did not work out either. The geez did use a borderline top 100 prospect to get Shane Bieber so they did spend some real assets to upgrade their pitching at the deadline and we don’t get the first round by without acquiring Shane Bieber so they sort of did their job [/QUOTE]

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