Worse closer: Dempster or Latroy?

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Vote for the Worst!

[shawndgoldman]

Are you serious? Lets enact the mob mentality that as soon as a guy blows a save he's the worst closer ever - that makes us look real intelligent!

[Drew Doughty]

wow. And we were complaining about that JDE guy trolling?

[sunnydoo]

wow, switch his name to Captain Overreaction.

[NCCubFan]

You CANNOT POSSIBLY be serious. Dempster has been tremendous as a closer. He has ONE bad outing, which is much less than even most of the top closer has, and he's compared to Hawkins? Unreal.

[Tracer Bullet]

This question is complete overreaction, but I wouldn't call Dempster a tremendous closer just yet. He got the saves last year, but as I recall, he didn't strike out a ton of guys as a reliever. He also had a pretty high WHIP (around 1.50 or so). I always got the feeling that he got a little lucky last year.

 

Blowing 1 save this year shouldn't result in comparisons to Hawkins, and his WHIP and K rate are incredible after 1 month. But he hasn't been the kind of guy that you see warming up and think "this one's over."

[Drew Doughty]

Dempster as a reliever last year:

 

4-0, 1.85 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 53 K, 58.1 IP

[E.J.]

Can I vote this as the worst poll ever?

[NCCubFan]

Honestly, I just don't see anything useful coming out of this thread.