What would Gagne rather have? option A) A World Series option B) One less save that Riske picked up because he had pitched the 3 previous days Gagne wants to win and so does Yost. In their opinion, Gagne going out there in the 10th gave their team the best chance to win. (which turned out to be wrong in hindsight and here we sit) BTW, I think Gagne would take option A. It's not just about the one extra save. It's about what Yost is going to do in this situation. If he runs into it about this often throughout the season -- (and there will be probably be 5-10 situations this season where bringing in Gagne for the save will be at least questionable), Gagne IS going to want the chance to earn the extra saves. Baseball is not a pure sport anymore. Saves are a pretty overrated stat that don't tell us much, but saves are money. If Gagne gets 40 saves this season instead of 32, that's probably several million dollars in a long-term contract just through those 8 extra saves. I'm not trying to badmouth Gagne. I don't care what he cares about as long as he pitches well this year. I'm a Gagne fan for this year because he's a Brewer, but I have little doubt that Eric Gagne's #1 priority is Eric Gagne's well-being. Would he like to win a World Series? I'm sure he would, but I have little doubt that his main agenda when he signed with us was to sign that short 1 year deal for a nice chunk of change, perform well and put together an impressive 2008 to give him a long-term top closer contract with somebody before he retires.