So we took a look at Trevor in non-saves vs saves. I thought it would be interesting to see how the other great closer of our time handles himself on non-save situations and with some prompting from sdsuaztec4, I went ahead and did it.. Keep in mind, these are just tip of the iceberg types of numbers, but they're interesting to look at anyways.

I think the big reason I wanted to take a look at these is because, as good as Geoff's original article was, he makes reference to "small samples". The one critique I have of the article is the fact that when looking at career numbers for guys like Trevor of Mariano Rivera, we're not dealing with small samples, but the actual population of their innings pitched, so we actually do have some statistical say in whether or not there's a difference in how they performed according to their splits.

More (boring?) baseball talk after the jump. I CAN'T WAIT.

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