Is Jonathan Papelbon's Dominance a Thing of the Past?

“Things happened quick. More than anything, I wasn’t really able to stop the bleeding,” Papelbon said. “Your team fights to put you in that situation. To call upon you, and you let them down? Your team expects you to pull through and to preserve that win...and when you don’t it’s definitely not a good feeling.”

Jonathan Papelbon has been one of the elite closers in the game for the past four years.  So elite that he has more saves in the four-year period than that of the New York Yankees Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera.

A closer has to be lights out when the game is on the line.  One thing I have noticed is that his ability to get the first two outs of an inning is impeccable as the stats show:

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