Mass Deception

• 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.