Will Diamondbacks Return To CLOSER BY COMMITTEE With Sewald Out Of The Role?

another thing obviously that we need to talk about here in this series is the fact that the Diamondbacks have they they shook up their Bullpen and they made the decision to remove Paul sewald from the closer role I know you weren't here to discuss that but we now had a chance over the course of this series to see what Tory lello's game plan would be not only with Paul sewald but with that Clos the role Paul sewald moves into a middle relief role has been pretty good not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but he's gone out there he's been able to give the Diamondbacks some relief he he's he's had value still it's not like they had to just bench him or you know DFA him or anything like that and of course we're going to have some questions on our mail mailbag Monday SE section about Paul seaal but the big question here is is that is this going to work you know we've seen the Diamondbacks turn to Ryan Thompson he was successful in a situation where we were in the pool watching him come in and and bail out Paul sewald in a situation where the diamond almost blew that save now Ryan Thompson got himself into a a situation here and AJ Puck comes in and saves the day for the Diamondbacks and he had his own bad outing already as a dback that makes you uh you know just hate life in question if we we'll ever have nice things you know for us but AJ Puck very effective in that role just feels like on one hand we're right back to the closer by committee thing on the other hand yeah Jesse I have to admit I don't hate the idea of Tory laalo being able to Pivot in the middle of an inning where things aren't going well for the guy that he has in there and turning to someone else to come in and clean up the mess I know that's not the greatest strategy but I feel like it's a better strategy than sticking with your closer no matter what and letting that person go until they blow the game and I mean at least Tori was able to do that with Ryan Thompson in the finale of this one I I don't I don't hate it I really don't hate it I mean I I do think that they should have somebody in that role but I also don't hate that he did this yeah there I guess there's something to be said for that like if you're not so committed to any one player then you're you're maybe not going to let that player hurt you as much if things don't work out it's a very valid point Ryan Thompson didn't yeah I wouldn't say he inspired a ton of confidence um you know he did he did very much help sea Wald in that Wednesday game against the Nationals but you know the the Friday game like he did allow run uh before before that one was was over fortunately the dbox had a two-run lead in that spot um and then he allowed another run on on Sunday and as you said AJ Puck came in and uh you know in a tight spot and it was able to get him out of that so the Diamondbacks Bullpen is in a very interesting place right now where there isn't really any one reliever that is going super great Ryan Thompson has kind of struggled a little bit here Justin Martinez has looked better in his last couple of outings but we've also had some rough ones there in the last in the last month Justin Martinez needs things to go perfect in order for it to be a great outing for him like it's it's like it's it if one thing little All or Nothing it's not even all or nothing it's like it's just you see how quickly he gets flustered and uh thrown off by I mean it could be justifiable right it could be a case where you know a pitch should have been a a strike and it ends up getting called the ball and he's kind of like in his head about that or whatever yeah and also I can very much relate did it getting flustered when things don't go right for me that's when the PlayStation gets turned off and I put my controller away and I don't care about finishing that game anymore but uh you know of course these guys all had some pretty outstanding eras at one point this season eras we knew that weren't going to be sustainable like sub they still do have pretty like Justin Martinez is a 205 Ry Thompson has Jessie yeah sub one that was he had a 0.45 ra at one point this season however yeah it is a bit frustrating that field like things are so chaotic for this Bullpen without Paul seaw Wald in that role you know and unfortunately all the guys that we've trust we've trusted lately have kind of faltered out of the bullpen we saw GLE have a rough outing where he had to be picked up you know yeah he's had a couple rough ones lately yeah so it's it's just it's a frustrating thing it's also a very long season I mean luckily the Diamondbacks bring in some arms and they're getting guys some rest Dylan floro seems to be an absolute godsend in the bullpit so if you want to give somebody credit where credits due uh what are you laughing about do you well do you make Dylan floro the closer does have a 1.99 ra Derek but yeah you're right it feels like the decision of who pitches the ninth inning is it feels like it's the decision of like all right who which reliever are we going to mess up by putting by putting in that role right who has the Lost ra good we're g to [ __ ] up your ra go out there let's see what happens yeah no it sucks because right like uh Justin Martinez obviously is someone you know that the fans definitely want to see I don't think you can put Justin Martinez in that role Dylan Flo does have saves this season he has he has pitched in the ninth inning he right for Washington he doesn't have saves this season he did have seven last year 10 the year before that 15 the year before that just been seeing his career stats on yeah he's pitched in the ninth inning for sure but uh you know the Nationals had Kyle finnean obviously so they were they were pretty well set in that in that role we we we saw what happened to Kyle fin again