FANALYTICS: Fixing the Bullpen Problem
May 24 2012
It's been a mess, hasn't it?
More than half of major league bullpens currently have a different closer than who was drafted on Opening Day. Since the end of last season, more than two-thirds of major league bullpens have a new closer. The turnover has been unprecedented.
In the Closer Volatility chart that we've been publishing in the Baseball Forecaster since 1999, the only year that comes remotely close to this debacle is 2003. That year, the turnover rate was 59% for the entire season. We will break that record when the next two bullpens change hands.
Whoops—looks like Sean Marshall may be out—make that one more bullpen.
And it's still only May.
One of the most interesting insights in the chart from that period: every...
Almost!
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