KELVIN HERRERA RUMORS
A's complete sweep of Royals
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Yoenis Cespedes hit a leadoff home run in the eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.Cespedes hit his eighth homer, connecting against Kelvin Herrera (2-4).Jerry Blevins (3-0) pitched one scoreless inning. Ryan Cook worked the ninth for his first save of the season.Alex Gordon matched his...
Via Fox Sports Kansas City
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Kelvin Herrera: Baseball Rainmaker
A year ago, one of baseball’s best individual player stories was Kris Medlen, of the Braves. Previously something of a forgotten man, Medlen threw 138 innings as a reliever and then as a starter, allowing just 26 runs and six dingers. The year before, Pirates sinkerballer Charlie Morton made a name for himself by starting 29 times and allowing just six dingers. The year before...
A MLB Closer: The Measure of a Man
Kelvin Herrera, a 102 mph high-five. Image courtesy of Minda Haas.
I just traded away a closer, which is something I most likely will do at least once more this season. While I’m not entirely of the “never pay for saves” crowd (you have to pay something for saves), I do treat saves as a fungible commodity. My working mindset is that there’s a good shot I can find the next...
Closer-by-Committee?
by John Viril—Something very interesting happened in the 9th inning of yesterday’s 3-1 comeback victory over the Twins in Monday’s home opener. Royals manager Ned Yost sent Aaron Crow to get the save. By eschewing nominal closer Greg Holland and heir-apparent Kelvin Herrera, has Yost instead decided to go “closer-by-committee”?
Of course, the official answer is no. Yost...
Five Thoughts on a Non-Simmering Closer Controversy
Whatever else was made of the Royals’ off-season makeover, most agreed that the bullpen was a strength. Tim Collins and Aaron Crow had shown to be good relievers who might even be worthy of closing for some teams, but were only the the third and fourth options in the Royals bullpen. Kelvin Herrera came up and dominated in 2012 with a fastball that touched triple digits, and projected...
Daily Notes: Nerd Stats for the Dominican’s WBC Roster
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. Nerds Stats for the Dominican’s Provisional WBC Team
2. Video: The Only Footage You’ve Maybe Seen of Kelvin Herrera
3. Status Update: All the Caribbean Leagues
Nerds Stats for the Dominican’s Provisional WBC Team
This past Thursday, all 16 participants in this year’s World Baseball...
Kelvin Herrera is Really Good
The title essentially speaks for itself. The Royals bullpen features many very good pitchers, one of which is Kelvin Herrera. Dave Cameron highlighted a recent performance from the Royals bullpen over at FanGraphs, a game in which Herrera faced four batters and struck out all four. Cameron also took to Twitter that day stating that Herrera may be the most underrated reliever...
Giavotella, Herrera win Minor League Awards
Royals second baseman Johnny Giavotella and pitcher Kelvin Herrera reached the Major Leagues this year, and now they'll have awards to commemorate how they did it.
Via royals.com
December 01, 2011
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