Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
Casting About For Angels Bullpen Solutions
Part of this is Scioscia's inability to juggle parts properly when incompetence of one sort or another become obvious; Fuentes, in particular, has no business facing righties, but the major-league-minimum parts of the bullpen are all just craptacular, and the duo of Kevin Jepsen and Jason Bulger entered the season with substantial questions about their abilities in the major leagues. If anything deserves damning, it's the clerical error that allowed Darren O'Day to exit the team's control.
The scary part is that the rise of the Angels' solid bullpens announced the team's presence as a force in the AL West. Its unraveling seems to herald the reverse. I don't know how to fix it, either, short of some losing years and good drafts.
Via Halos Heaven.
Jepsen has allowed no runs in 16 of his 20 appearances, and his FIP is 2.56 and his xFIP is 3.24. He has a groundball rate of 60.5% and a K/9 of 10.13. His BABIP is a ridiculously bad-luck .371. This guy is a victim purely of Soth mismanagement and bad defense. Otherwise, he's the best reliever the team has at the moment.
As for front office booboos, add letting Oliver walk to the O'Day travesty. Both guys would be our best arms in the pen at the moment had we retained them.
It's particularly frustrating that our minor league arms have been, at best, poor.
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