Relievers

The bullpen in the mid 80's became the big thing to baseball. In the mid 70's they had a few relievers but in the 80's they began to have closers. They would usually pitch 2 to 3 innings as opposed to the closers of today's game who thrown 1 maybe 2 innings to close and save the game. With closers came the idea of middle relievers, they would come in, in the ladder part of the ball game which is the 6,7, and 8th inning. They have one job and that is to keep the game in tact, if the game is out of control the team will then go to the long relievers. They usually just go out and keep pitching til the game is over, just to save the bullpen for another time. Some of the greatest closers in the game range from Goose Gossage, Mariano Rivera and up to all time save leader Trevor Hoffman.