RELIEVERS: Dog Days

Last column looked at some changing roles. Now we update some situations that may not be obvious on their face and dive deeper into two pens with a look toward 2013. Let's start with a few pens worthy of comment--it is not worth staying long on them, but there are some interesting trends:

L30          TM   Sv BS   IP    ERA  WHIP  K  BB HR   G/F
========== =====  == ==  ====  ====  ====  == == ==  =====
Marmol      CHC    4  0  10.0  0.90  1.10  13  3  0  17/4
Valverde    DET    6  0  10.0  2.70  0.80   8  1  1  13/10
W.Lopez     HOU    1  1  12.7  2.13  1.11  12  1  0  22/3
G.Holland    KC    5  0  16.0  2.25  1.19  17  5  0  17/15
Cishek      MIA    7  0  10.0  2.70  1.10  10  3  0  14/8
J.Henderson MIL    3  1  10.0  4.50  1.70 ...

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