SAN FRANCISCO -- Those Nasty Boys that carried the Reds to the 1990 World Series combined to tally a Major League-leading 50 saves that year. Five different relievers had saves in what has been commonly labeled a bullpen by committee.
Every committee, however, has a chairman.
On that Reds team Randy Myers had 31 of those 51 saves.
Was he the chairman or the closer?
Does it matter?
He was the guy who got that shot at the ninth whenever he was rested and ready to go.
And two days after saying LaTroy Hawkins was being given a break from the ninth-inning bullpen role with the Rockies, manager Walt Weiss has decided Adam Ottavino is the Rockies chairman or closer or whatever label someone wants to slap on him.