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- Updated: August 3, 2016
BALTIMORE — Rangers manager Jeff Banister made it clear Wednesday: Sam Dyson is still the team’s closer even after right-hander Jeremy Jeffress was activated. The Rangers acquired Jeffress, who has 27 saves this season, from the Brewers in the deal that brought Jonathan Lucroy to Texas.
The acquisition provides Banister with additional depth at the back end of his bullpen, which entering Wednesday, ranked last in the American League with a 4.81 ERA.
“It stretches our bullpen out,” Banister said. “It allows us to stay away from some of those three-day-in-a-row-type scenarios with Dyson. It also allows us to have a guy in the seventh, eighth inning on that knows how to face the heart of the order and get the job done. It also gives us a guy that can get some of those four-run situations.”
This season marked the first time Jeffress, 28, had been used as a closer in the Majors. But he doesn’t envision there being an adjustment period transitioning back out of the role.
“I have the same mentality every time I go out there,” said Jeffress, who has a 2.22 ERA over 47 appearances. “I always treat it like it is the ninth inning. There is no such thing as getting work in. I’m just going to go out there and treat it like it’s …
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