In a Bleacher Report Community effort, the top Featured Columnists for MLB’s top teams have come together to give the fans a thorough understanding of what to expect when your ace succumbs to playoff pressure, putting a close game in the hands of your bullpen.
Each Bleacher Report Featured Columnist has been a fan of their team, as have you, for as long as possible.
In speaking with these writers, they understand the history as well as the current state and future prospects for their bullpen.
This has been a learning experience in putting these analyses together and may this be a guidebook to you fans who need to know what your opposition is going to be throwing at you late into a game.
Two last things:
1) In finding the videos for this slideshow I found it comical that every closer either enters the game to Metallica’s, “Enter Sandman,” or at least has a youtube tribute to him set to that song.
2) Make sure to check out Mariano Rivera’s video on how he dominates attached to the first Yankees slide. It’s a must-see.