RELIEVERS: 2023 Opening Day usage
Apr 2 2023
This article is just about Opening Day usage. You will want to take it into account, but give it the weight that it is due. The projections and skills are still your stronger source for making decisions. Why is Opening Day usage important? Well, in some cases it is not important, and game flow dictated something that a manager would not do. Other times, it can tell you a hierarchy for a manager and how he wants to deploy his relievers. Typically, you want to see a variety of game scenarios before you can take usage patterns to the bank, so all caveats on these observations apply.
With that preamble out of the way, first note that without Raisel Iglesias (RHP, ATL) who is currently shelved, the Braves used lefty A.J. Minter (LHP, ATL)...
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