Since the Pirates most recent blown lead, there’s been significant chatter about the need to supplant incumbent closer Tony Watson with Felipe Rivero. As Tim pointed out yesterday in his piece on the bullpen's issues, the solution is not as simple as that. More precisely, he wrote: “The Pirates can’t just continue the current approach and do nothing. But there’s no easy fix here. Moving Felipe Rivero to the closer role just strengthens the 9th inning, while weakening the earlier innings. It makes it less likely that the lead will be blown in the 9th, but also less likely that the lead will ever get to Rivero.
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