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So far, so good. Without the great Joe Nathan, the Minnesota Twins are off to a good start and his replacement, Jon Rauch, is four-for-four in save situations. Now, granted, the sample size is very small and there's a heck of a lot of baseball yet to be played. Meanwhile, I wasn't being pithy when I said the "great" Joe Nathan—he truly is one of the best closers in the game, no doubt. But to say that when a team's closer goes down, as Nathan did before the season, the team is lost is just giving far too much credit to the man who pitches the ninth inning in a close game. Look, I understand that not every pitcher can handle the pressure of the ninth inning. I recall, for example, former Twin Le Troy Hawkins being forced into the closer role in Chicago a few years back and the fans ra ...

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Article written by Bob Warja