No relief

I love this note from Philly.com:

Charlie Manuel has had to mix and match 14 relief pitchers at different times this season.

Just two pitchers have been in the bullpen since the start: Geoff Geary and Antonio Alfonseca.

Brett Myers, Tom Gordon, Ryan Madson and Francisco Rosario have spent time on the disabled list. There is Clay Condrey, who was designated for assignment once and outrighted once. There are Yoel Hernandez, Mike Zagurski, Matt Smith, Fabio Castro, Brian Sanches and Joe Bisenius, who have either been called up from the minors or optioned to the minors.

The scary thing is the Tigers and Phils have remarkably similar numbers from their relievers, as far as BA/OBA/SLG:

Detroit .275/.351/.437
Philly .278/.364/.430

Those numbers are fairly dreadful. Here are relief numbers for all teams, clumped somewhat by effectiveness:

San Diego .216/.279/.312
Toronto .218/.296/.333
Boston .232/.319/.349
Angels .232/.302/.370
Dodgers .233/.292/.344

Yankees .235/.338/.360
Seattle .239/.333/.339
San Fran .240/.323/.376
Mets .240/.324/.403
Texas .240/.325/.375

Milwaukee .241/.307/.367
Arizona .241/.324/.395
Oakland .242/.312/.359
Atlanta .244/.330/.361
Cleveland .246/.324/.368

St. Louis .247/.312/.381
Minnesota .248/.322/.368
Cubs .248/.328/.383
Florida .258/.344/.382
Washington .259/.327/.409

Cincy .263/.347/.399
Houston .264/.342/.429
Baltimore .267/.356/.380
KC .267/.343/.428
Colorado .269/.345/.400

Pittsburgh .273/.349/.449
Detroit .275/.351/.437
Philly .278/.364/.430
White Sox .289/.381/.441
Tampa Bay .292/.376/.458