Memo to Trey

I admittedly know very little about Japanese baseball, in fact everything I do know is because of a very bad Tom Selleck movie, so I'm a bit confused about your use of Jimmy Gobble. I'm guessing there are no lefty specialists over there and so you decided there would be none here too. Thats a shame because Gobble owns left handed hitters. You see Trey there is this thing called splits and in Gobble's case they are eye opening:

Splits	PA's	AVG/OBP/SLG	OPS	K/BB
RHB	66	.400/.530/.720	1.250	7/14
LHB	51	.149/.231/.237	.492	13/3

.149 is just sick and there is room in your bullpen for a LOOGY so there is no absolute reason for him to ever face a right handed batter, none. He is not Ron Mahay and probably never will be, although with leftys you never know at what age it will all come together for them (see Moyer, Jamie). At the beginning of the season I thought like you and didn't see the need for a LOOGY when you had Mahay and several right handed relievers who could also get LHB's out but the way Gobble has dominated leftys has changed my mind. He has value but only when used correctly. And it's your job to make that happen so I trust you will make the right decision regarding Gobble's use in the future.