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Old 08-10-2022, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by G1911 View Post
If your argument was that closers did not exist back then, you might have a point. To argue that closers in the current sense did not exist back then, and therefore Marshall and Lyle were middle relievers, is illogical.
Weren't Lyle and Gossage considered closers AT THE TIME? Or is that an after the fact gloss?
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