It’s been well-established that Dave Dombrowski has had his issues building a bullpen for his teams in the past. This year however, he has constructed quite the ‘pen for the Boston Red Sox.
I took a look at the bullpens from the championship teams, and compared them to this year’s bullpen. For the comparison I used the back end of the bullpen from each team: the closer and two of the setup men.
The “Speed” column represents the average velocity of their fastball. I also used K/9 to show how frequently each pitcher gets a strikeout and threw in ERA as another measuring tool.