Good read about the closer-by-committee situations currently working in Atlanta and Tampa. Don't expect it anytime soon in Flushing, but I particularly liked this from the article:

"As the story goes, a team that declines to slot its pitchers into rigid roles is supposed to suffer all sorts of problems, as anguished relievers find themselves unable to prepare and mentally broken by the idea of pitching with the game on the line......a pitcher's job is to get outs whenever the manager asks him to get them rather than to fulfill a certain marquee role."