This is deja vu all over again. We were .500 last year with a league leading 20+ blown saves for a loss. If we cut that in half, we make the playoffs. That's what makes losses like this even more frustrating. At least the rest of our bullpen has been spectacular but keep in mind they have been overworked which is not good. An overworked bullpen eventually gets blown up.
Absolutely. Years and years worth of ineffective closers have created a tremendous sense of fear and frustration amongst Blue Jay fans. Two blown saves after just four games simply helps to resurrect the sinking feeling that the fans managed to bury after the accquisition of Santos. Is it a knee jerk reaction? Yes, but understandable.
Take Rivera's blown save against the Rays and the Sox blown game against the Tigers. Now imagine enduring that over and over again throughout the course of a season. Now imagine enduring seasons like that over and over again throughout the course of a decade or more. If this happened to Yankee and Sox fans, they would naturally be preconditioned to have a lack of trust and confidence in whomever is placed in the closer's role...until they are shown or proven otherwise.
Had Santos blown two saves mid season, after many successful saves, I doubt any trepidation would exist at all.
