After Felipe Vazquez blew his fourth save in five tries on Thursday, Vazquez suggested to reporters that he might be tipping his pitches or somehow letting opponents know what was going on ahead of time.
“Probably I’m tipping them and I don’t know,” Vazquez told Bill Brink of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I watched some videos [Friday], it doesn’t look like I’m tipping. They’re probably, I don’t know, giving signs.”
It was a bit of a convenient time for that conversation to come up. Hurdle has said that Vazquez isn't in danger of losing his closer's spot, but that probably has as much to do with the fact that there hasn't been anyone throwing a lot better in the Pirates' bullpen than it does with any sort of supreme confidence in Vazquez.