RELIEVERS: Angels, Braves, Rays, Brewers and Blue Jays

As promised, we start with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Keynan Middleton (RHP, LAA) has returned, where Thursday, he set up Jim Johnson (RHP, LAA) who successfully converted the save. This is something of an aberration. Here is the usage over the past 30 days (through Thursday games):

LAA           Sv BS Hd IP  DOM  CMD HR/9 xERA BPV Cln/App  LI
============= == == == == ==== ==== ==== ==== === ======= ====
Middleton      5  1  0  9 11.0  2.2  1.0 3.81  82   5/8   1.47
J.Anderson     0  1  5  8 13.5  3.0  1.1 2.86 147   6/8   1.49
J.Alvarez (L)  0  1  3 13  9.7  7.0  0.7 3.36 156  12/15  1.13
Bedrosian      1  1  2 12  8.3  1.8  1.5 4.74  48   9/12  0.74
J.Johnson      1  1  2 13  7.1  2.0  --  4.73  51   7/13  0.71
N.Ramirez    ...

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