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Rangers Monday Fastball: A Brilliant Bullpen with No ‘Weirdo’ Works

Texas Rangers On SI·Matt Postins·28 days ago
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DETROIT — Every time the Texas Rangers play, the bullpen just seems to come up huge. Against the Tigers on Saturday, between Cal Quantrill, Peyton Gray and Gavin Collyer, they threw six innings of scoreless relief in a 5-1 loss. No bullpen has thrown more games with three or more scoreless innings in baseball (15) than Texas and their bullpen ERA is the best in baseball. The bullpen includes some expected faces. Jacob Latz was the Rangers’ best left-handed reliever last year and is emerging as a closing option. Cole Winn was part of last year’s bullpen. But that’s it. The bullpen includes two rookies (Gray and Collyer), and a passel of journeymen like Tyler Alexander, Jalen Beeks, Jakob Junis and Quantrill. Rangers manager Skip Schumaker says the bullpen has everything. Well, almost everything. “The one thing we don’t have is a weirdo back there,” Schumaker said. But this bullpen works.…

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