RELIEVERS: NL West—first look at 2014

This week we begin the NL West relievers with a look at Arizona.

Arizona started strong and ran into difficulties with injuries to closer J.J. Putz (RHP, ARI), poor-timed failures by replacement Heath Bell (RHP, ARI) and set-up David Hernandez (RHP, ARI) and finally settled on sidewinder Brad Ziegler (RHP, ARI) to save games as the Dodgers surged past. Skills:

ARI                SV  IP   Dom  Cmd hr/9 xERA  G/F  BPV
=================  == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===== ===
Ziegler            11 68.7  5.0  1.8  0.4 3.29 70/11  63
Putz                6 30.7  9.4  2.0  1.2 3.56 51/34  71
Bell               15 62.0 10.0  4.6  1.7 3.30 43/34 142
D.Hernandez         2 56.3  9.3  2.6  1.6 3.96 32/47  82
Reynolds (L)        2 27.3  7.6  4.6 ...

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