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    In baseball, a closing pitcher, more frequently referred to as a closer (abbreviated CL), is a relief pitcher who specializes in getting the final outs...
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  • Look up closer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Closer or Closers may refer to: Closer (2000 film), a documentary by Tina Gharavi Closer (2004 film)...
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    2015, this time as the team's closer. He was then traded to the Detroit Tigers in 2016, and became the Tigers' closer. In his rookie season, Rodríguez...
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    man) Closer Manager Coaches Athletic Trainer Equipment manager General manager Batboy Ball boy/girl Team physician Infield shift Ace (baseball) Starting...
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  • Retrieved 18 April 2024. "Gatemen closer hopes it's his time". southcoasttoday.com. Retrieved 18 April 2024. "2010 Baseball Roster Michael Seander". goduke...
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    Royals. In baseball statistics, the term save is used to indicate the successful maintenance of a lead by a relief pitcher, usually the closer, until the...
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  • ) Closer (baseball), a relief pitcher who specializes in finishing a game Central League, one of two leagues in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball Continental...
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    Aroldis Chapman (category Baseball players at the 2007 Pan American Games)
    injuries to closer Ryan Madson and middle relievers Bill Bray and Nick Masset led manager Dusty Baker to put Chapman in the setup role. Interim closer Sean Marshall...
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    nicknamed "D-Rob", is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for...
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    Kenley Jansen (category 2009 World Baseball Classic players)
    Netherlands World Baseball Classic Roster". Mister Baseball. March 13, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2017. "Netherlands add All-Star closer Kenley Jansen to...
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    Casey Richard Close (born October 21, 1963) is an American former baseball player and sports agent. Close was born in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from...
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    Mariano Rivera (category Major League Baseball pitchers)
    setup man, he became the Yankees' closer in 1997. In the following seasons, he established himself as one of baseball's top relievers, leading the major...
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    debut on April 23. When Rockies' closer Jake McGee went on the disabled list in June, Estévez became the Rockies' new closer. He finished the 2016 season...
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    In baseball, a submarine is a pitch bent down rotating around the sagittal axis with the shoulders closer parallel to the transverse plane rather than...
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    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several...
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  • Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. During the summer, Meyer played for the Team USA Collegiate National Baseball Team, serving as the team's closer leading the...
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    Brad Lidge (category Baseball players from Sacramento, California)
    the new Astros closer, while offering Lidge opportunities to relieve in the sixth or seventh innings of games. He regained the closer role at the start...
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    at the World Baseball Classic A Closer Look at the Tiffany & Co. Trophy Japan Won at the World Baseball Classic "Special | The Baseball Hall of Fame and...
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    Craig Kimbrel (category Baseball players from Huntsville, Alabama)
    club option for the 2025 season. Kimbrel was named the closer for Team USA in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Despite not surrendering one lead-off double...
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    Clay Holmes (category Baseball players from Dothan, Alabama)
    Yankees' closer and was an MLB All-Star in 2022 and 2024. Holmes attended Slocomb High School in Slocomb, Alabama, and pitched for the school's baseball team...
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    2, 2017. Gans, Andrew (December 10, 2018). "Glenn Close Says Sunset Boulevard Film 'Inching Closer' to Reality". Playbill. Archived from the original...
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    pitcher Huston Street is baseball's cerebral closer". OC Register. Retrieved August 3, 2021. Setty, Rahul (January 3, 2017). "A closer look at Huston Street"...
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  • Baseball is a Super NES baseball game that was released in 1994. The game has a Major League Baseball (MLB) license but not a Major League Baseball Players...
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  • The Brewers traded Josh Hader, their closer, at the 2022 trade deadline, and Williams succeeded him as their closer. In October 2022, it was announced that...
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    Trevor Rosenthal (category Baseball players from Missouri)
    into the closer role well. As of September 7, he led the MLB with 43 saves. He stayed in the closer role despite the return of former closer Jason Motte...
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    September 19, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, San...
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    Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada. One of the big...
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  • leagues around the world — namely Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball — making it a closer equivalent to the world cups of other sports...
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    League Baseball draft and made his major league debut during the 1993 season. Initially a setup reliever, Jones started being used as a closer for the...
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    himself one of baseball's elite closers. In what would turn out to be a very prophetic quote, he replied: An elite closer is a closer who's part of a...
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