Uehara

Perhaps it's nitpicky, but I quibble with Gerry Fraley's characterization of potential trade-away Koji Uehara as "a victim of the numbers game in [Texas's] bullpen." Let's check those numbers. First, the closer and setup guys: Joe Nathan, Alexi Ogando (presumably), Mike Adams. Next, everyone else on the 40 with MLB experience: Scott Feldman, Mark Lowe, Yoshi Tateyama, Mark Hamburger, Michael Kirkman, Cody Eppley. The other contenders are 40-man virgins Martin Perez and Neil Ramirez, non-40 prospect Tanner Scheppers and NRIs Mitch Stetter and Sean Green. The only lefties are Kirkman, Perez and Stetter. Outside the top three, there's no one about whom you can say: "He has to be in this bullpen." When on his game, Uehara ranks easily among Texas's best bullpen arms. Despite middling velocity, he owns one of the best K/BB ratios on the planet. Uehara isn't being squeezed out of a deep bullpen. This is about him. He appears t...