Guardado change obvious

The easiest decision in baseball was made today when Guardado was removed as closer. It's too bad it took another blown save to make it happen, because the M's can ill afford to lose these games.

The evidence against was overwhelming. Bad shoulder. Bad September. Bad spring training. Bad first part of the season. Bad velocity. Bad location/control.

But Hargrove and Bavasi stuck with him, and it cost the team some wins. No way to argue otherwise.

Now we get to see if Putz or Soriano really have the stuff to close. As we saw with players like Nelson and Rhodes, great stuff in the 7th and 8th doesn't always translate to the 9th. While we think Putz and Soriano should do well closing, we won't know for sure until they prove it.

Felix on the mound... it would be nice to see him pitch well and get this catching crap removed from the discussion.