The worst part is, the Astros only had 34 saves (by far the lowest total and lowest converstion percentage of any Postseason team).
It would be interesting to know whether that was level through the season, or changed after the mid-season trades.
Hard to tell at a glance. Of the 34, Pressly had 26 of them. Javier, Stanek, Raley, Bielak, and Abreu combined for the other 8. You’d have to dig a little more to determine that. But as an anectdote…Pressly had 11 saves in June/July and 8 in August/September. Not sure if you can make anything of that or not.
Post trade deadline:
57 games
22 save opportunities
11 saves
Pre trade deadline:
105 games
39 save opportunities
23 saves
So save opportunities remained about the same (38.6% vs 37.2%) while conversion percentage dropped (50% vs 59%). You can pretty much put all that on Maton and Graveman who blew all 6 of their save opportunities.
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My faulty memory seems to think the Astros, as a team, were less successful in August/September than they were in June and July. Seems like once they got past Oakland for the division lead, they kind of took the foot off the pedal.
They were considerably less successful in August/September (29-25) than in June/July (35-17).
The stat mavens give a guy who gives up a lead in the 5th or 6th a “blown save.” That is not the same thing as giving up a lead in the 9th.
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Despite the lockout, the minor league rule 5 draft is happening right now. Cincinnati just took Ronnie Dawson.
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