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1. Mass Deception

   by Richard Parks

   • Published:
     1. Elysian Fields Quarterly, March 01, 2008
   • Metainfo:
     • 1127 words
     • 37.6 inches

   While the profile of the relief pitcher has shifted significantly in recent decades from unusable starter and last-gasp late-inning replacement to high-paid lynchpin closer, set-up man, and set-up set-up man, the bullpen notoriously remains a bastion of clubhouse quacks and irregulars. Cordoned off in irregularly designed, hard-to-see and hard-to-see-from quarters of the modern ballpark, relief pitchers usually have very little reason to corral their eccentricities.

   
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