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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Wade Davis broke your brain.
Before Wade Davis made anyone that wasn't Wade Davis look sub-human, Greg Holland was as good a closer as you'd find out there.
In his 2 healthy seasons as the primary closer, Holland put up a WHIP below .9 and struck out better than 13 per 9 with an ERA of 1.32 and a FIP of 1.59. Those numbers are absurd.
In 133 appearances over those 2 seasons, he allowed a runner in scoring position 51 times. So at worst, in 38% of his appearances, he was in a little trouble. But I'd bet that many of those were 3 run leads with a man on 2b (not really in trouble there) or something of similar effect.
Short answer: I think you got spoiled by your robot closer and forgot that you had a pretty superhuman guy doing to job before him.
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The back end of that bullpen of HDH may never be duplicated.