RELIEVERS—February 2014 questions revisited

This week, the column looks back at five questions asked on February 12 that spring training would answer. Let's start with #1, which was--

(1) Who closes for Baltimore? Here are the current BaseballHQ.com projections:

BAL                 IP  Sv  xERA WHIP  Dom  Cmd HR/9  G/F  BPV
==============     ==== ==  ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===== ===
Hunter              58  32  3.88 1.21  6.1  3.6  1.4 41/38  82
O'Day               58  11  3.29 1.00  8.5  4.2  1.1 36/42 113
Webb                58   2  3.80 1.36  6.2  2.0  0.8 54/25  60

While Tommy Hunter (RHP, BAL) reported as recently as Sunday than Buck Showalter had not told him that he was the closer, he did get the word Monday morning, confirming what most pundits guessed: Hunter is the...

Almost!

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