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On the subject of blown saves;
I generally don't trust closers with a one run lead, unless they're Mariano Rivera and even then he's had epic blown saves (albeit about 1% of them).
Duane Ward blew 4 of Juan Guzman's games in 1993, and Duane Ward is a fucking badass.
Tom Henke blew the save in Game 6 of 1992 World Series and the Jays still won, and he escaped the inning without giving up the lead. Tom Henke was also a bad motherfucker.
I'm pretty much a Jays Bandwagonner right now... always have loved baseball but grew out of it over the years especially with the Jays playing 20 plus years of nothing baseball (even their very good teams weren't anywhere close to the playoffs) and especially as I fell in love with rugby and MMA. So I'm not really 100% on who the great closers are now. (I think Craig Kimbrall is one of them?) Andrew Miller looks to be a nice little find for the Yankees... and even Dionner Navaro put one out on him in a tight spot. I just think you could have the best closer in the game and a 1 run lead just isn't enough. It's essentially a 25% chance he's going to give up a run. It's up to the bats to give your closer a 2 run lead. 1 run is a fucking bitch to deal with.
Also, I don't know why, but I really like Jeff Samarzija. He's kind of a jobber, but an Iron Mike Sharpe type jobber aka a jobber I can get behind.
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