Twenty-one years old, is Osuna, terrific closer on a team that I’ve been covering for more than three decades. Osuna has converted 35 of 39 save opportunities, though, which is of more import than, say, the last three games without a strikeout. Much of the credit for the maturation of Osuna must go to Russell Martin, who has so capably handled the moundsmen. Two years into his major league career, Osuna is not going to pull a diva with Martin in pitching sequence strategy. “But you ride the high of the fight.”I’m thinking Roberto Osuna might say much the same thing — if he’d talked.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 01:52 UTC