Who Should Close?

We asked the question, "who should close?" and the winner of the poll was Guillermo Mota. The choices were Mota, Eric Gagne, Salomon Torres, David Riske, or closer by committee. Gagne and Riske are both on the disabled list so neither of them can close obviously. Before Gagne was placed on the DL I said Guillermo Mota was the right man for the closers job. Now I believe the right man is Salomon Torres.

Torres has been doing the closing since Gagne's been on the shelf and he's done an admirable job. On the season Torres has 3 saves with a 2.81 ERA in 32 innings pitched. The only reliever with an ERA better than Torres besides the newly acquired Julian Taverez, is lefty specialist, Brian Shouse. Shouse is just that though, a lefty specialist, not a closer.

Guillermo Mota has been a very sold addition to the Brewers bullpen. He's pitched 21.2 innings and has an ERA of 3.32 with 25 strike outs. He makes a very solid setup man. However he hasn't performed too well in the ninth inning when given the chance.

Someone who looks very intriguing is Tim Dillard, who was recently called up from Nashville. He hasn't allowed a run in the few appearances he's made thus far and looks promising. He's got excellent velocity throwing 96mph. I don't think he should be put into late inning situations just yet but he seems to have the potential to close down the line.

For now it's good to see Torres closing ball games, something Gagne unfortunately wasn't able to do with any consistency. If Torres continues to pitch well he should continue being the teams closer upon Gagne's return.

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