In summation, relievers like Riviera come into games to protect leads created by dominant pitchers like Santana. The starters do the hard work and the relievers simply protect leads. Important and necessary? Yes. But lets be realistic, Riviera isnt exactly having a career year and check out most of the leads he has to protect...usually at minimum 2-3 run leads.
And to compare a player like Jermaine Dye with Jason Giambi is absurd and that quite frankly is putting it very nicely.
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