Interesting article. Will finish the second part translation later today. ========================== From STL-Post Dispatched http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/matheny-contracts- can-t-be-ignored-in-setting-bullpen-roles/article_92da9db5-ecb9-591d-99 39-e1d2e2762f8a.html Matheny: Contracts can't be ignored in setting bullpen roles By Derrick Goold The Cardinals have had internal discussions during manager Mike Matheny's tenure about when, if ever, they would consider using the closer earlier than the ninth, when perhaps the true save situation is the eighth inning against the heart of the order. 在Mike Matheney就任总教练後，红雀队内部曾讨论一个议题 － 如果，在某些时 候让终结者提早上班，例如第八局遇上对方的中心打线，比原本预定的第九局更需 要终结者的强力救援。 The closer might not get the stat. The team would get the win. 如此一来终结者很可能无法获得救援成功纪录，但球队能因此而获得胜利。 Matheny said Sunday it's appealing, but the save stat cannot be ignored. 就在上个星期天，Matheny表示这个想法虽然很吸引人，「救援成功」这个棒球纪 录的重要性，不能因此被忽略。 「You want to be respectful, too, to what these guys are trying to do individually,」 Matheny said. 「For us as a team to move forward certain things need to happen and a lot of times it's trying to create an atmosphere where each of these guys are able to achieve everything, and there are contracts involved. There are personal statistics that help drive personal achievement as far as salaries go. For us to be completely oblivious to that, I think is a mistake as well. Matheny表示，(虽然帮助球队胜利很重要，但是)你必同样尊重球员的个人成绩。 对我们来说，一个球队要能顺利运作，必然伴随着许多因素，很大一部分包括塑造 一个良性的气氛，让每一个球员达成各自的目标成绩，包括合约里的那些目标。而 谈到个人的目标成绩，就跟球员薪水脱离不了关系。所以身为教练，我认为不能只 注重球队胜负，而完全忽略个人成绩的重要性。 「Then you start having some friction,」 Matheny continued. 「There are outside influences that are constantly pushing these guys toward the statistics that are going to get them paid someday, right?」 Matheny继续说到，因为薪水，球队胜利与追求球员个人成绩，就可能产生摩擦， 一直以来，都有球场以外的因素，持续地影响球员，以追求个人成绩与赚取更多 薪水为优先，不是吗？ Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal earned an All-Star invitation this season and has been among the league leaders in saves all season. He used to annually talk about wanting to be a starter someday, but that conversation has faded as he's had success in the ninth inning and also been told how much money can be earned in that role as he reaches arbitration. He will be eligible for the first time this winter. The backbone of any closer's arbitration case is saves; newcomers Steve Cishek and Jonathan Broxton have both seen their salaries inflate in their turns as closers for Miami and the Dodgers, respectively. 红雀队终结者Trevor Rosenthal在今年入选国联全明星队，并且在球季中持续领先 联盟的救援成功纪录。虽然Rosenthal每年都提到希望能转任先发投手，但正因为他 担任球队终结者的优异表现，以及了解到一个成功的终结者可以在球员薪水仲裁上 获得怎样的好处，Rosenthal也就不再坚持要转任先发，这个球季後刚好是Rosenthal 符合薪水仲裁的第一年。 对於任何一个终结者来说，救援成功纪录最关乎於薪水仲裁的成败，红雀队新交易 来的Steve Cishek与Jonathan Broxton，分别因为担任过迈阿密马林鱼队与洛杉矶 道奇队的终结者，而获得大幅度的薪水调升。 Matheny, sitting in the dugout hours before Sunday's game, said the stat itself is arbitrary. (「Why a three-run lead?」 he asked, rhetorically, 「and not a two-run lead?」) But it has influence over decisions because it has importance to the team. 「Guys are compensated for that and for us to turn a blind eye to that is not looking for what's best for all of our guys,」 Matheny said. 「Complex answer, but I think it's a complex question. I think the salary structure might start to differ because of this conversation and that would be possibly good. … What it comes down to is winning. We also believe that we have guys who can get us through those tough innings.」 A year ago, the Cardinals had Carlos Martinez assigned to the eighth inning, but in a game against Pittsburgh, Matheny went to the young reliever early because the middle of the Pirates' lineup came up and the game was in doubt. It makes sense, the manager said, to use the best relievers at the moment they can most alter the outcome of the game. A way to do that while also being respectful of the save stat — and the pressures of the final three outs, Matheny stressed — is to have other options as reliable as the team's closer. That's the flexibility he hopes to have with the trade-deadline additions of Cishek and Broxton. They join lefty Kevin Siegrist and righthander Seth Maness as four pitchers Matheny said he can shuffle through the bridge innings based on matchup. It's not necessarily going to be one reliever assigned each of the final three innings as it was when Edward Mujica was a seventh-inning man in 2012. Instead it could be the chance to use the reliever throwing the best at the point in the game when outs are crucial, even if a save won't be awarded. 「You're going to see that with us now,」 Matheny said. 「I think you're going to see juggling in the set-up roles. The argument always comes back to who is your best reliever and do you want them in there against the best part of the order? And the answer is, you know, all things considered, yes. But there are things from the outside that influence that decision. What we've been able to do with the front office re-arming our bullpen is have more flexibility.」 -- 出国就是为了回国 入团就是为了脱团 (烟~) --

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