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David Robertson: Pressure Will Be Too Much for Mariano Rivera’s Replacement

good news for the Red Sox is at least the playing field is now even. Neither they nor the Yankees have an elite closer anymore. 

When Mariano Rivera tore his ACL shagging fly balls on Thursday, it was just about the most devastating thing that could have happened to the Yankees. It robbed them of their most important player. Just two days ago, the Star-Ledger's Marc Carig posed the question, "Do [the] Yankees boast [the] top bullpen tandem in Mariano Rivera and David Robertson?"

Not anymore.

The transition to closer is one of the hardest transitions to make in sports, and there are very few who have been able to do it successfully. Elite closers are born, not made, but nevertheless the Yankees have limited options, and ...

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