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Yankees Chapter of the BBA Announces AL Reliever of the Year Selection

style="text-align: justify;">The next Baseball Bloggers Alliance award we are participating in is the Reliever of the Year Award or the Goose Gossage Award.

The Goose Gossage Award was named after the former Yankee reliever Goose Gossage because his style helped to defined the role of the modern closer. In his prime with the Yankees, Gossage had a 2.10 ERA, 150 saves, a 183 ERA+, and a 8.8 K/9 rate over a span of six years. He did it with a style of intimidation that set the tone for an entire generation of pitchers.

The BBA is comprised of nearly 300 baseball blogs and will shortly announce the winners, but first the votes must be cast. As chapter president of the Yankees chapter, ...

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