Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Running under the premise that pitching wins championships, he brought in stud young arms when he was forced to trade Randy Johnson. He has systematically improved his bullpen, most recently by signing Jeff Nelson from the Yankees. And he implemented some addition-by-subtraction by removing clubhouse cancer, Ken Griffey, Jr. Through it all, he kept the brilliant leadership of the colorful Lou Pinella...
...four strangers laconically chatting while waiting for a bus. And though I admire the guy and hate to say it, you've gotta place some of the blame on Bernard Shaw, sheathed in his 12-inch bulletproof coating of gravitas; it just seems to deaden anything approaching an irreverent bullpen sensibility, which you need if you plan to stay up with a news crew until...
...Louis rookie right-hander Britt Reames did show promise out of the bullpen, pitching 4.1 innings of one-run relief in Game Two after Ankiel started the game wilder than Ricky Vaughn...
...real strength of this ballclub is its pitching. The lefty-lefty duo of NLCS MVP Hampton and Leiter is dominant. When it's time to go to the bullpen, nobody is deeper than the Mets, who can toss out Rick White, Turk Wendell, John Franco and a surly Armando Benetiz to slam the door...
...have demonstrated that they are ripe for assassination. The lineup that used to work the count so carefully and nickel-and-dime teams to death is no longer so consistent. Joe Torre cannot throw out Pettite, Clemens or El Duque and always receive a command performance. Their once-mighty bullpen is down to Jeff Nelsen and the great Mariano Rivera...