With relievers Craig Kimbrel, Junichi Tazawa and Koji Uehara currently all sidelined by injury, manager John Farrell should begin to put some of the inexperienced relievers in pressure situations.
But shouldn’t he have been doing that much earlier this season?
In Farrell’s defense, the Kimbrel injury wasn’t his fault. He couldn’t have controlled the fact that Kimbrel was shagging fly balls during batting practice (even though he could make it a rule for pitchers not to do that from now on).
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But with Tazawa and Uehara, I’m surprised it took this long for them to finally hit the DL.