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Sep 3, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Kirby Yates |Aroldis Chapman
+ Ranking baseball's closers for the 2024 season The Pirates have finally elected to take David Bednar out of the closer role, but this may still be a situation to avoid as it appears the team will go with a committee approach the rest of the season. Aroldis Chapman and Dennis Santana figure to be the two main closing options, and to be fair both have pitched exceptionally well since the All-Star break, so I wouldn’t argue against rostering either one.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Aroldis Chapman |Reed Garrett
We lost a few reliever to the IL this week but we also gained two prominent 2024 breakouts in Bryan Hudson, and Reed Garrett who both returned from the IL. Hudson returns to a Brewers bullpen that is just Trevor Megill away from being at full strength, but I’d still expect to see Hudson get plenty of holds chances (Megill as well).
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May 16, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |A.J. Puk |Aroldis Chapman |Emilio Pagan
So if I just had waited one more week before moving Bryan Abreu down…To be fair, it had looked like Abreu was turning a corner a few weeks back before looking shaky again, so we may not be out of the woods completely yet. That being said, Abreu has allowed just 3 hits, a walk and a run over 5.1 IP in May while striking out 9, which is pretty much what we’ve come to expect from Abreu in his career.
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May 9, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Reed Garrett |Adrian Morejon |Aroldis Chapman
Ranking baseball's top setup options for the 2024 season. I suppose it is time to move Bryan Abreu off of the top spot in the holds rankings, an unfortunate reality but he just isn’t right at the moment. Abreu’s stuff is still relatively intact and he’s generating swings and misses (16.2% SwStr) but the command has been atrocious. It’s easy to point to the walk rate (14.3%) for his problems but it goes beyond that.
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May 2, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |JoJo Romero |Aroldis Chapman |Shelby Miller
David Roberston has been locked in as the Rangers’ top setup man, with sparkling ratios and a 35.5% CSW and the highest Stuff plus in that Rangers bullpen (120). He’s been throwing his knuckle curve more often this season, dropping his slider usage (which has been knocked around) while also utilizing the changeup more against lefties than in years past.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Tanner Scott |Aroldis Chapman |Orion Kerkering
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Jason Adam, Phil Maton and Gregory Soto each had three SV+HLD’s this past week. Adam and Maton got in some extra work with Pete Fairbanks unable to pitch in Colorado this past weekend, and while the command issues for Maton are a concern right now, I’d expect him to figure things out given his track record.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Tanner Scott |Andres Julian Munoz |Andrés Muñoz |Aroldis Chapman
+ Ranking baseball's closers for the 2023 season. The Cubs were dealt a big blow to their roster yesterday as Adbert Alzolay was placed on the 15-day IL with a forearm strain. Michael Fulmer picked up the save last night in Alzolay’s absence, in what was Fulmer’s first appearance since August.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Jhoan Duran |Aroldis Chapman
It’s another short week as we only got a weekend’s worth of games to go off of, but one that stood out was how well Devin Williams threw this past weekend. He was able to pick up three saves in three days (as did Jhoan Duran this past weekend), striking out five, letting up zero hits, and most impressive, allowing zero walks.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Aroldis Chapman |Griffin Jax |Yennier Cano
+ Ranking baseball's top setup options for the 2023 season. Now that it’s July, it’s officially trade season and we’ve already seen a pretty significant move with Aroldis Chapman going to the Rangers over the past weekend. Chapman gets a small boost going to Texas where he should see more holds chances and could potentially move into the closer role in the second half if Will Smith falters.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Aroldis Chapman |Griffin Jax |Brusdar Graterol
+ Ranking baseball's top setup options for the 2023 season. This will likely be José Alvarado’s last week on this list as it’s looking more and more likely that he is the Phillies’ closer at the moment. Not only has he been the team’s best reliever this season, but he’s arguably been a top 1-2 reliever in all of baseball to begin the year.
