Call me crazy, but would a lot of time off necessarily have a cumulative on the numbers of days a closer can pitch in a row? Plus it's not like he wasn't doing anything as a pitcher during that time. If he starts getting into a series where he's going out there each day, I don't think on the third day his body is going to react, like, "well, usually I can't do this very well (or at all), but since I only pitched once in two weeks prior to the last two days of pitching, I can!"