... "Blake has that turbo sinker," Baker said. He’s played shortstop, second, third, outfield, that’s kind of what we’re looking for these days, guys who can do a number of things.”Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.Susan Slusser has worked at The San Francisco Chronicle since 1996 and has covered the A’s fulltime since 1999. At the end of 2018, Blake Treinen was riding high. He threw 80 innings of 0.78 ERA, 1.82 FIP relief, the best relief season by RA9 WAR in the 21st century and the sixth best by fWAR. “The life on the fastball was a little better. "I don't want him to think ... `You're going to have to stumble quite a few times before we're going to make a change.' So perhaps he's found that formula. That's Blake Treinen, Dodgers reliever, and the "sinker" you just witnessed is pure unadulterated pitching nirvana. After Washington went a winter without landing a ninth-inning man and a spring training trying to figure out who would earn the role, manager Dusty Baker announced Thursday the 28-year-old Treinen won the job.Baker, general manager Mike Rizzo and pitching coach Mike Maddux waited until the team's final day in Florida -- the Nationals were playing an exhibition game at the Washington will travel north for two more exhibition games against Boston -- one in the nation's capital on Friday, the other in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday -- before opening the regular season Monday at home against the "I think a lot of us came into spring willing to put our heads down and compete and be the best that we can, knowing that we're all going to have valuable innings," Treinen said. Oakland A’s closer Blake Treinen had a smooth 1-2-3 save Tuesday at Anaheim and he said Wednesday he was particularly pleased with the life on his sinker. Glover tore the labrum in his hip at the end of last season and spent the offseason rehabilitating it. She has been a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America since 1993 and in 2012 became the only woman to be elected president in the 111 years of the organization. But you can't just have one stumble and get somebody else. It was good to see it working that well.”“I can tell you he’s bigger than any Aldrete I’ve ever seen,” “He’s very versatile.

"Blake has that turbo sinker," Baker said. Dodgers' Blake Treinen: Plans to adjust pitch usage by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire Treinen will look to throw his sinker more often this season, Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register reports.

Treinen is available because of the annual payroll crunch the A’s are facing, Rosenthal also reported. He finished sixth in AL Cy Young voting, a placement befitting his absolutely outrageous season. "Last season, Treinen was typically used when another pitcher had entered a jam.His sinker often results in ground balls, which translate into double plays. Closer Blake Treinen lets out a yell after the Oakland A’s recorded the final out against the Los Angeles Angels at the Coliseum to extend the team’s winning streak in Oakland, Calif. on Monday, May 27, 2019. With Blake Treinen throwing 98 mph whiffle balls, the Dodgers have another option. Blake Treinen will start the season as the Nationals closer after beating out Shawn Kelley and Koda Glover for the job during spring training. Treinen is now (at least) the second reliever to whom the Yankees have been connected in the last few days along […] She is also a correspondent for the MLB Network.A’s closer Blake Treinen showing ‘better life’ on signature sinker He finished last season, his third in the majors, with a 2.28 ERA and 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings. Kelley has twice had Tommy John surgery.Being the closer will be new for Treinen, but he vowed Thursday to remain the same quiet guy who enters to "The Outsiders" by Eric Church and not turn his unfamiliar role into an event.Baker pointed out that several well-known closers -- from "There's going to be some stumbles," Baker said. For a variety of reasons, he threw his sinker a career-low 66.9% of the time last season and his cutter a career-high 19.7% of the time. Advertisement Baseball is the ultimate game of adjustments, and at … A’s reliever Blake Treinen, whose 0.78 ERA in 2018 was the best in history by a pitcher who had thrown at least 80 innings, had hoped to follow up his All-Star year with similar results. And his fastball was registering over 98 mph.“It looked like his sinker was back and he had some confidence in it,” manager “It felt like it had a little bit better life,” Treinen said. How do you develop that?" The Yankees are interested in Oakland A’s sinkerball reliever Blake Treinen, reported The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal last night. "The right-hander's powerful sinker has become his key to success after being converted from a starter to a reliever. "To be in the position Dusty has put me in, I feel honored. He previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals and Oakland Athletics.Treinen was an All-Star in 2018. In 2019, she and Chronicle columnist Ann Killion were named the co-California Sportswriters of the Year; Susan is the first team beat writer in the state’s history to win the award.Slusser’s book about the A’s, 100 Things A's Fans Need to Know and Do Before They Die, came out in 2014 and she and A’s radio announcer Ken Korach released a new book, If These Walls Could Talk, Tales from the Oakland A’s Dugout, Locker Room and Press Box, in 2019. "He may give up a hit or a walk, but he's always one pitch away from getting two outs with one pitch. I'm excited to have that opportunity.

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He's a strong young man and very durable.