RELIEVERS: BaseballHQ.com Bullpen Charts

This week, we take a step back and discuss some of the superb tools at your disposal to help you make your own judgments about who will close, who is up-and-coming, and who is due to fail. The Bullpen Indicators Chart on the Team page provides some great insight into a given pen—let's look at the Red Sox pen with this chart:

Here is the chart broken into four separate components for Boston (stats as of Monday April 23)—(1) results, (2) skills, (3) usage and (4) splits. We start with results to date:

BOS            W L Sv BS Hld IP  BFG
==========     = = == == === ==  ===
Aceves         0 1  2  2  0   3  3.1
Padilla        1 0  0  0  0   7  6.7
Atchison       1 0  0  0  0  10  7.5
J.Thomas (L)   0 0  0  0  0   5  4.0
Tazawa        ...

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