After surrendering two home runs and nine total baserunners to his first 16 batters faced, Anthony Bass is getting a break from closer’s duties. He wasn’t even among the three pitchers used for high-leverage relief work in Saturday’s win—that save opportunity went to Yimi García.
In January, Bass became the first pitcher to receive a guaranteed, multi-year major league contract from the current Marlins ownership group. Relative to the rest of MLB, $5 million is a modest expenditure, but the team went out of its way to hype him up.