As a rookie, Nesbitt is being asked to strand a high number of runners, and lately, he's failing.
Tuesday night Angel Nesbitt relieved Alfredo Simon in the seventh inning with the bases loaded and the worst possible thing happened -- a grand slam.
With all three runners scoring, this increased Nesbitt's inherited runners scored to 8-of-22 (36 percent). Only Al Alburquerque (43 percent) and Joba Chamberlain (38 percent) have been worse. The league average is 31 percent.
The surprising number here is the numbers of inherited runners that Tigers manager Brad Ausmus has asked Angel Nesbitt to strand, and 22 runners puts him in the top five in all of baseball (all stats are as of June 4).