-The Braves open 2-0 after Chipper Jones goes deep in a 2-1 game to give the Braves the 3-2 edge that Billy Wagner kept with three K's in the ninth. This is one of those games you truly love to win because the Ryan Dempster was dominating. He had the Braves, after the second, flailing and missing. Until the bullpen got the call, the Cubs were cruising. In the 8th, John Grabow, Mr. I'm-More-Than-A-LOOGY, got Melky Cabrera, but Martin Prado doubled to set up Jones, who unlike so many times last...

Unlike the starting rotation, which brings back an entire staff, the bullpen was a place of great changes this offseason. Rafael Soriano and Mike Gonzalez, a combined 157 games and 37 saves, will be wearing new uniforms entering next year. Considering Bobby Cox’s nature of basically using four relievers last year, their important shoes must be filled.

A pair of Boston Red Sox imports will be trusted with the bulk of that task. Billy Wagner and Takashi Saito were signed earlier...

Continuing on with the 4 part series, we'll move on to the bullpen situation heading into the off-season.

Once again, this isn't what should be done, but rather what I'd personally do if I were in Frank Wren's shoes based on my observations and some research I've done as we wait for the hot stove to get heated up.

Moving ahead with this, it's obvious that the bullpen will be one of the biggest concerns heading into the off-season. Sure...we lacked some serious pop on...