An Awful Trend

[love_that_reefer]

The bullpen was the weakest coming in to this year and they didn't really do anything to improve. As a fan of a team with a shitty bullpen, I feel your pain bro!

[ljshorty89]

I don't know. I mean, Wagner is fine. Duaner Sanchez has been great. Pedro Feliciano and Joe Smith have been good. Schoeneweis is a capable lefty specialist. Heilman and Sosa only had to be decent middle relievers. It's not like its a bullpen made up of terrible pitchers, they just all seem to underacheive...

[love_that_reefer]

Heilman should have been traded last year but I do like Feliciano. Schoeneweis isn't someone you can count on. Sanchez has recovered nicely.

[ljshorty89]

I mean, I don't know if Schoeneweis can be counted on, but he is a decent/average middle reliever. So, I mean, we have a very good closer in Wagner, a very good setup man in Sanchez, and we have Feliciano who is reliable. Joe Smith has been very good this year, and proved he has the talent last year, as long as he can maintain it over a whole season. There's a solid 4-5 relievers right there. So we only needed Heilman and Sosa to be decent. They didn't have to be spectacular. But now they each have ERA's over 5. Even Heilman was decent last year...I just don't get it.

[Kingdom_of_Zito]

Everyone has their off years, Heilman was solid for the 200 some innings before this season.