IBC

We have threads for the top Lineups and the top Rotations... now it's time for the bullpen! Post your bullpen here!

Top candidates (alphabetically)...

Correia, Kevin
Hennessey, Brad
Johnson, Tyler
Moseley, Dustin
Ohman, Will
Putz, JJ
Riske, David
Wasserman, Ehren

Boston's much improved bullpen:

Cl Pat Neshek 2.94era 70ip
SU R1 Manny Delcarmen 2.05era 44ip
SU R2 Kobayashi n/a
SU L1 Okajima 2.22era 69ip
LOOGY1 Ray King 4.76era 39ip
LOOGY2 John Grabow 4.53era 31ip
Long Brandon Lyon
Mopup Billy Buckner

other potentials depending on splits
Craig Hansen

CL - J. Papelbon
Setup 1 - Krod
Setup 2 - Shields
Setup 3 - Bradford
Setup 4 - V. Chulk
Setup 5 - E. Ramirez - may slide up on projection.
LH 1 - Flores*
LH 2 - Sanchez*
LH 3 - Thatcher*
Long 1 - Doug Davis*
Mop Up - Pat Misch*

Other Potential Candidates:
Lee Gronkiewicz
Paul Estrada
Matt Albers
Pedro Viola*
Fabio Castro*

Closer - Huston Street (A's Closer)
RHSU - Chad Qualls (Presumptive DBacks Closer)
LHSU - Taylor Tankersley (Eventual Marlins Closer)
MR - Chad Cordero (Nationals Closer)
MR - Dennys Reyes (Kills lefties, injured in 2007 but check 2006 stats)
MR - Trever Miller (Awesome in 2006, less so in 2007, we'll see)
MR - Braden Looper (Could be the Cardinals ace until Carp returns, he doesn't even make my rotation).

Scott Linebrink 5-6 3.71
Jensen Lewis 1-1 2.15
Bobby Seay 3-0 2.33
Brian Shouse 1-1 3.02
Eduardo Morlan
Jaime Vermilyea 0-0 0.00 2k's
Lincoln Holdzkom

Takashi Saito
Manny Corpas
Justin Duchsherer

Lefties
Randy Choate
Matt Thornton

Mike Timlin
Doug Slaten
Yasuhiko Yabuta
Jon Meloan

CL: Billy Wagner
Set-up R: Kevin Gregg
Set-up R: Rafael Betancourt
Set-up R: Saul Rivera
Set-up R: Juan Rincon
Set-up L: Jimmy Gobble
Set-up L: Alan Embree
Long L: Glen Perkins

Jose Valverde CL

Duaner Sanchez
Matt Guerrier
Casey Janseen

Macay McBride*
Dan Meyer*

Julian Tavarez (Long)

Indians bullpen - probably gonna go 7-deep due to an older starting staff, but that could change:

CL - Brad Lidge
RH - Santiago Casilla
RH - Jason Frasor
RH - Angel Guzman
LH - Ron Mahay
LH - Darren Oliver
Long relief/mopup - Edgar Gonzalez

Also in the mix depending on projections:
RH - Greg Aquino
Long relief/mopup - Matt Belisle

Bullpen:

CL - Matt Capps - 64/16 K/BB, 2.28 ERA, 1.01 WHIP w/ 18 saves
SU - Octavio Dotel - 41/12 K/BB, 4.11 ERA, 1.34 WHIP w/11 saves
SU - Matt Lindstrom - 62/21 K/BB, 3.09 ERA, 1.30 WHIP
SU - Jerry Blevins* - 3/2 K/BB 9.64 ERA, 2.64 ERA and 102/18 K/BB, 1.63 ERA, 0.93 WHIP (AAA, AA & Hi-A)
SU - Fernando Hernandez* - 84/23 K/BB, 3.06 ERA, 1.13 WHIP (AA)
LR - Jeff Bennett - 14/3 K/BB 3.46 ERA, 1.31 WHIP

One or more of the following might make it in depending on his projection, if not they are simply considered "futures":

Logan Kensing - 13/7 K/BB, 1.35 ERA, 1.35 WHIP
Warner Madrigal - 75/23 K/BB. 2.07 ERA, 1.10 WHIP (Lo-A)
Juan Morillo - 71/31 K/BB, 2.55 ERA, 1.46 ERA (AAA & AA)
Scott Patterson - 92/15 K/BB, 1.05 ERA, 0.78 WHIP (AAA & AA)
Jeff Stevens - 102/25 K/BB, 2.81 ERA, 1.00 ERA (AA & Hi-A)

Joakim Soria

Juan Cruz
Cla Meredith
Russ Springer
Eric Gagne
Aaron Fultz
Derrick Turnbow

I may go 8 deep and use one of these guys depending on their projections:
Yorman Bazardo
Craig Breslow
Jon Coutlangus
Brad Salmon

CL: Carlos Marmol
SU: Chris Perez
SU: Hong-Chi Kuo
MR: Dana Eveland
MR: Ambiorix Burgos
LR: Cha Seung Baek

Cl - Brian Wilson - 1-2, 2.28 era, 0.97 whip, .188 baa, 18/23.2 k/ip
Su - Aaron Heilman - 7-7, 3.03 era, 1.07 whip, .224 baa, 63/86 k/ip
Su - CJ Wilson - 2-1, 3.03 era, 1.21 whip, .208 baa, 63/68.1 k/ip
Mr - Michael Wuertz - 2-3, 3.48 era, 1.37 whip, .234 baa, 79/72.1 k/ip
Lh Sp - Royce Ring - 2-0, 2.70 era, 1.50 whip, .186 baa, 21/20 k/ip

5 Battling for 2 Spots:
Kevin Hart - 0-0, 0.82 era, 1.00 whip, .189 baa, 13/11 k/ip
Brian Wolfe - 3-1, 2.98 era, 0.99 whip, .224 baa, 22/45.1 k/ip
John Bale - 1-1, 4.05 era, 1.55 whip, .290 baa, 42/40 k/ip
Ryan Franklin - 4-4, 3.04 era, 1.01 whip, .234 baa, 44/80 k/ip
Geoff Geary - 3-2, 4.41 era, 1.44 whip, .283 baa, 38/67.1 k/ip

Closer:
Mariano Rivera

Setup Men:
BJ Ryan
Rafael Perez
Mike Gonzalez
Joel Peralta
Scott Proctor

Long Relief:
Joe Beimel
Kyle Farnsworth
Russ Ohlendorf

Wild Card:
Joba Chamberlain

Francisco Cordero - 2.98/1.11 44 saves .218 BAA 86K/18BB 63.1 IP
Justin Speier - 2.88/0.96 .202 BAA 47K/12BB 50IP
Bob Howry - 3.32/1.17 .245 BAA 72K/19BB 81.1 IP
Renyel Pinto - 3.68/1.31 .222 BAA 56K/32BB 58.2 IP
JC Romero (NL stats) - 1.24/1.10 .202 BAA 31K/25BB 36.1 IP 15 hits allowed
Dennis Sarfate - 1.08/0.72 .172 BAA 14K/1BB 8.1 IP
If I carry seven its between Mike MacDougal (3 year stats should give decent projection), Scott Mathieson or Jason Hammel

My pen sucks:

Jason Isringhausen
Leo Nunez
David Weathers
Manny Acosta
Fernando Nieve
Jose Ascanio

...but I have a jillion relief prospects to compensate:

Ascanio
Luis Pena
Jason Motte
Samuel Gervacio
Ernesto Frieri
Wilfredo Perez
Tony Sipp
Mark Melancon

...and potentially:

Jake McGee
Julio Pimentel
Tommy Hunter
Kelvin de la Cruz

On a related note, I'd be interested in trading for a good reliever.

CL Trevor Hoffman, R [2.98 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 61 G, 57.1 IP, 49 H, 42 SV, 44 K, 15 BB]
SU Luis Ayala, R [3.19 ERA,1.30 WHIP, 44 G, 42.1 IP, 43 H, 28 K, 12 BB]
SU Jamie Walker, L [3.23 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 81 G, 61.1 IP, 57 H, 41 K, 17 BB, .216 BAA vs LHB]
MR Justin Miller, R [3.65 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 62 G, 61.2 IP, 53 H, 84 K, 24 BB, .184 BAA vs RHB]
MR Jeremy Affeldt, L [3.51 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 75 G, 59.0 IP, 47 H, 46 K, 33 BB]
LR LaTroy Hawkins, R [3.42 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 62 G, 55.1 IP, 52 H, 29 K, 16 BB]

Others: Henry Owens, Adam Miller, Gio Gonzalez, Bob McCrory, Charlie Morton, Zach Duke, Boof Bonser, etc.

So is the "top pens" actually going to get ranked unlike the "top lineups" and "rotations"

Losing Joel Zumaya for most of '08 is gonna be a tough pill.

Bobby Jenks - CL

Brandon Morrow - RHSU < .211 vs RH
Boone Logan - LHSU < .221 vs LH

Bill Bray - LHMR < .158 vs LH
Joey Devine - RHMR < .211 vs RH

Manny Parra - Long Man (& starter)

Carlos Rosa - Mop Up

With 1.0 IP in the Majors Ross Detwiler is the only '07 player "guaranteed" to be in the DB, so I'm sure I'll be mixing him in.

Reds wrote:So is the "top pens" actually going to get ranked unlike the "top lineups" and "rotations"

Once I have enough submissions to rank them, yep.