This summer, Jerome Holtzman (pictured, right) will have been dead for 10 years. The sportswriter is perhaps best known for inventing the save stat, which legitimized the closer and helped get folks like Trevor Hoffman into the Hall of Fame. But as sabermetrics advocates argue that the save is, essentially, a bad stat ruining the game, where does Holtzman's legacy stand? I spoke with seven men -- sportswriters, analysts, even Holtzman's son -- to get their takes. I really enjoyed working on this. It's over at MEL.
