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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Willie Randolph and Billy Wagner

By Tangotiger, 06:42 AM

Willie Randolph said this:

I’ve used him so many times to nail down an important win for us in non-save situations. He’s given our bullpen a sense of completeness that we didn’t have last year.

He’s talking about Wagner.  Thanks to Fangraphs, we can look at this assertion.  Breaking up his games into whether he got a save or blown save, and into games where he got neither:

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Willie Randolph and Billy Wagner