One of the many reasons you need to be careful about moving a closer is that you could lose two back-end relievers for the price of one.

Good morning to you.

Good. Thursday morning, I'm Dan Kovachiev, of D. Good morning to you. Good.

Thursday morning, I'm Dan Kovachar, H of DK. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Pirates.

Comes your way bright and early every weekday.

If you're into football and or hockey,

I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Penguins

in the same place that you found this.

Giants 4 Pirates 2 yesterday at PNC Park.

That was the rubber match of the series.

San Francisco took the series,

and the pirates are now, coincidence or otherwise,

two and four in the month of August since trading David Bednar to the Yankees for whatever

it was that they got back for him.

Trading closers, no matter how good they are, is something that the cool kids do in baseball.

It's been that way for a while ever since the cool kids were successful in convincing the you know not so cool

kids that closers are easily replaceable because all they're doing is getting people out it doesn't

matter what inning they're doing it in they're grossly as such in the eyes of the cool kids

overvalued. One problem with that. It isn't accurate. Based on about a century and a half of

actual baseball and based on my own comparatively very, very, very, very small experience within that century and a half

of talking to people, players, coaches, managers, executives, but especially players.

...