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Cincinnati Reds have too many chefs and too few prep cooks in bullpen

The Cincinnati Reds went to rebuild the bullpen and did that by signing another closer to match up with incumbents Michael Lorenzen and Raisel Iglesias. With the signing of Drew Storen the Reds now have four people to share the closer’s role. When you have four closers you really don’t have any.

If the Reds really use Iglesias, Lorenzen, Storen, and last year’s closer, Tony Cingrani, all as late inning, high leverage relievers, the bullpen is left shallow during the rest of the game. The only other two relievers that appear to have their bullpen spots locked up are Blake Wood and Jumbo Diaz.