Way back when, in the early part of the 2010s, the Braves routinely shut down the opposition in the late innings with the three-headed O’Ventbrel monster. Those were definitely fun times, but the Braves dynamic lefty duo of Jonny Venters and Eric O’Flaherty had some competition in that department from Rex Brothers, who was up there as one of the better relievers in baseball over his first three major league seasons.
Those days, of course, have come and gone, as has Brothers’ effectiveness. After three strong seasons with the Rockies (2.82 ERA, 3.22 FIP in the rarefied air of Coors Field), the wheels fell off for him in 2014, and he subsequently spent much of 2015 riding the bus between AAA and Denver as he battled ineffectiveness.