Illusion Baseball: Hanrahan, Santos Head To The DL

Red Sox closer Joel Hanrahan is going to be forced to miss a few more times with an aching hamstring, so the club made a decision to position him on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Saturday (April 13). Tim Bailey will continue steadily to keep down the deeper obligations, but get used to the title Koji Uehara, who must slip in to at least a set-up position in Hanrahanas lack. In Toronto, Sergio Santos was also handicapped with he that have been bothered by a triceps strain since spring training. The club is enabled by his DL stint to activate 3B Brett Lawrie, however, you can get to see Steve Delabar and Brett Cecil get some eighth inning and shut-down conditions in the Jaysa pencil. Bailey did blow his first save chance on Monday morning, surrendering a one-run lead to the Rays, but he inherited the win and pitched out of further trouble. The career is his to get rid of. Bailey, in a admittedly small sample of 5.1 Ip Address has 15.2 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 costs. He even offers a 1.69 ERA. For his part, Uehara has additionally pitched 5.1 innings, with an 8.4 K/9 charge and just 1.7 BB/9 so far. He's maybe not given up an earned run. Should Bailey struggle, Sox supporters will appear to Uehara to part of. Hanrahan might have to make his job back must Bailey a a AL Rookie of the Year a exceed in the role. Hanrahan displayed great wildness last season, despite good surface research. Within our Closer Confidential report on Monday, we reduced Hanrahan to just a 35 % confidence score. If you own Hanrahan in your Fantasy league, we suggest you search for possibly another closer or experienced set-up man who may possibly get the ninth inning for his team. Santos has been wanting to perform through triceps ache for the Jays, but must be turn off at the least temporarily. He wore a ERA and was striking out more than 12 batters per nine innings. Delabar displayed great skills last time, but to date in 2013, he has shown wildness in seven innings. His ERA is under 3.00 but he's walking about five players per nine innings. Cecil has struck out nearly 13 batters per nine innings with a 1.46 ERA. He has already appeared in eighth inning situations for Toronto. Assume Cecil, who has added about 2 mph to each of his pitches, to settle in to an eighth inning part and give a good strikeout totals if Santos remains sidelined higher than a couple of days. Image via