Oakland A's manager Bob Melvin to use closer-by-committee approach - San Jose Mercury News
PHOENIX — A's manager Bob Melvin said before Saturday's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks that he is switching to a closer-by-committee approach after Brian Fuentes' second ninth-inning meltdown the night before.
Fuentes, Grant Balfour and Ryan Cook will all split closer duties depending on their availability and individual matchups, according to Melvin.
"I feel like we have three closers now," he said. "We'll do the best we can to match up."
Balfour won the closer's job in spring training but was demoted in mid-May after struggling. Fuentes took over and had success initially, but he has allowed walkoff three-run homers in two of his past four outings, and his three blown saves are tied for second-most in the American League.
Cook, a rookie right-hander who has been unscored upon in 23 of his 24 appearances, provides the most intriguing option because of his dominance in the setup role.
"He could end up pitching the ninth," Melvin said, "but if the bases are loaded with two outs in the eighth, he might be (the best option)."
Melvin prefers having one clear-cut option in the ninth but said of his current closer situation: "At this point in time we're having a bit of an issue."
Sanjay Joshi’s exit is good riddance for the BJP - firstpost.com
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It also has too many forces meddling with the party – from the RSS to the other elements of the Sangh Parivar. Sanjay Joshi, whatever his good points as an organisation man, was only fomenting trouble for Narendra Modi in the run-up to the Gujarat election.Narendra Modi is a tyrant, Digvijaya Singh says - Times of India
"Modi is a tyrant. He cannot face any competition," he told reporters here. "All my sympathies are with Sanjay Joshi. He has paid the price for in the know of too many of secrets of Modi," the Congress leader claimed adding that earlier Joshi was falsely implicated in a sex CD scandal in Madhya Pradesh and everyone in the BJP knew who was behind it.
Asked whether he intended to welcome Sanjay Joshi into the Congress fold, he said "He is a hard-core RSS man. I don't want to extend any such invitation." When asked how Sanjay Nirupam joined the Congress, Singh quipped, "Nirupam was not in the RSS, he was with Shiv Sena."
Criticizing the style of Modi's functioning and the incidents of reported fake encounters in Gujarat, the AICC general secretary said, "Ever since Gujarat's anti-terrorism squad's leader D G Vanzara and other police officers were arrested, no terrorist from outside the country had come to target Narendra Modi. Earlier, Gujarat police used to claim that terrorists were after Modi and they had gunned them down in encounters."
Commenting about the recent developments in the BJP, the Congress leader quipped "I can only say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupted BJP absolutely." He said the BJP leaders are engaged in one-upmanship with an eye on the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Asked about the prospects of the BJP projecting Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate for the next Lok Sabha polls, he said, "If so, I will have to express all my sympathies with leader Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj".
Singh said BJP president Nitin Gadkari, a hard-core businessman, has set his eyes on Prime ministership in 2019 by the time veteran Lal Krishna Advani would be out of race and Narendra Modi would have been more exposed
before the people.
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