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Oct 22, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Félix Bautista |Andres Julian Munoz |Andrés Muñoz |Jhoan Duran
+ Ranking baseball's closers for the 2025 season. After weeks of poring through data once the season ended, I’ve finally finished my “Way Too Early Closer Rankings” for next year. Many of the stats I mention in the notes are part of the data used to develop these preliminary rankings, amongst other metrics and considerations. It’s way too early to start speculating on roles for the non-locked-in closer candidates, of which there are only about 10, maybe 12 at the moment.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Kirby Yates |Jhoan Duran |Griffin Jax
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Jhoan Duran, Phil Maton, Aroldis Chapman, Reed Garrett, Griffin Jax, and Cade Smith all had three SV+HLDs this past week, with Duran and Maton racking four each. Maton and Garrett have settled in as the Mets top two set up options it appears, with Maton really taking off since joining the Mets.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Jhoan Duran |Tanner Scott |Kirby Yates
+ Ranking baseball's closers for the 2024 season Jhoan Duran, Evan Phillips, and Pete Fairbanks are three closers I had as elite or near elite heading into the season who have really failed to prove they belong in the top two tiers, especially as of late. Now they have each spent time on the IL at some point this season, so that certainly could be a factor, but either way, they just haven’t lived up to expectations.
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May 31, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Jhoan Duran |Griffin Jax |Camilo Doval
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Jhoan Duran, Hunter Harvey, Ryan Helsley, and Griffin Jax all had at least three SV+HLDs this past week as well. I said “at least” because Duran had a whopping five SV+HLD’s, which I believe this may be the first time I’ve ever seen that in one week. Perhaps even more wild is that he really didn’t pitch all that well, with a 1.615 WHIP and only three K’s.
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May 18, 2024 | 
worldbaseball.com | Cleveland Guardians |Jhoan Duran |Willi Castro
About 4 minutes reading time. CLEVELAND (AP) — Following a one-run loss, Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli was having a hard time processing what had just happened to his ballclub. This one was tough on the Twins. “There was some stuff going on today,” Baldelli said.
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May 10, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Jhoan Duran |Kirby Yates |Griffin Jax
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Jhoan Duran was the only reliever to pick up four SV+HLDs over the past week. Duran has been fantastic since returning from the IL and is clearly a top-five reliever in the game. The question is then, for those in save-only leagues, what will Duran’s usage look like moving forward as two of those four SV+HLDs were in fact holds.
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May 3, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Jhoan Duran |Kirby Yates |Yennier Cano
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Yennier Cano, Danny Coulombe, Kyle Finnegan, Jason Foley, Hunter Harvey, Ryan Helsley, and Joe Kelly all had three SV+HLD’s this past week. Cano and Coulombe have stepped up this past week with Craig Kimbrel nursing a back injury. Kelly is the wild card of the group, as his numbers don’t look great but it does seem like he is dealing with some bad luck again.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Devin Williams |Jhoan Duran |Ryan Helsley
+ Ranking baseball's closers for the 2024 season. Welcome back for another season and a new edition of Closing Time, ranking the closer situations throughout Major League Baseball. This year, more so than in recent history, we have almost 20 or so closers that we actually know are going to close out games or at the very least, will provide some value to your roster at the beginning of the season.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Tanner Scott |Jhoan Duran |Andres Julian Munoz |Andrés Muñoz
+ Rick Graham previews his early 2024 RP rankings After weeks of pouring through data, I’ve finally finished my “Way Too Early Rankings” for next season. A lot of the stats I mention in the notes are part of the data used to come up with these preliminary rankings, amongst other metrics and considerations. The reliever position is the most volatile in the game and creates more turnover on a year-to-year basis than any other position.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Jhoan Duran
Will Smith led all closers this past week with FOUR saves, which is certainly a relief to those rostering him worried about Aroldis Chapman potentially taking over the closer role. While Chapman still lurks and could replace Smith after just a few poor outings, Smith to this point has done nothing to lose the job. The bat-missing ability may not be ideal (29.4% CSW), but it’s hard to argue against Smith’s 2.63 ERA and 0.75 WHIP over his last 24 IP.
