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Jan 7, 2025 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Félix Bautista |Griffin Jax |A.J. Puk
+ Ranking baseball's top relievers for the 2025 season. Now with the football season over and the MLB offseason well underway, it’s time to start looking toward 2025. It being early in the offseason still and there being only about 12-15 locked-in “closers” at the moment, ranking relievers for SV+HLD’s leagues is a little bit easier than ranking strictly closers.
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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 27, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Kirby Yates |Tanner Scott |Griffin Jax
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Jason Adam, Lake Bachar, Anthony Bender, Hunter Bigge, Lucas Erceg, Ryan Helsley, Tanner Scott, and Blake Treinen all had three SV+HLDs this past week. Bachar is the name that sticks out as the most surprising, but the 29 year old rookie isn’t on the fantasy radar this year or next. Helsley continues to build his lead and should finish the season with the most saves (and most SV+HLD’s).
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |DL Hall
+ Ranking baseball's top setup options for the 2024 season. With only four days left in the MLB season (five if you include the Braves/Mets marathon on Monday), there’s not much you can do at this point if your fantasy season is still on going. If you strictly need holds, adding Braves or Mets relievers makes sense with them having 5 games left. For all other teams with 3 or 4 games left, the only team I’d probably avoid are the Rockies.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Kirby Yates |Mason Miller |Tyson Miller
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Jason Foley, Josh Hader, Mason Miller, Tyson Miller, Michel Otanez, and Will Vest all had three SV+HLDs this past week. Foley and Vest have helped (along with Tyler Holton) lead the Tigers playoff charge recently, with the trio having plenty of fantasy value this month. Otanez setting up Mason Miller next season will be something to look forward to for A’s fans.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Yennier Cano |Collin Snider |DL Hall
I want to lead this talking about two unheralded relievers currently on American League teams fighting for a playoff spot, with both of these guys stepping into high leverage roles due to a rash of injuries to their respective bullpens. Collin Snider has become the top set up option for the Mariners and rightfully so as he holds a 1.15 ERA (2.90 SIERA), and 23.2% K-BB rate over his past 31.1 IP dating back to early July.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Kirby Yates |DL Hall |Collin Snider
+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. Brennan Bernardino, Emmanuel Clase, Hunter Gaddis, Tyler Kinley, David Robertson, Troy Taylor, Devin Williams and Kirby Yates all had three SV+HLDs this past week. Bernadino was placed on the IL this week and will miss the remainder of the season with an elbow injury. Clase and Gaddis keep cruising in the Guardians bullpen with Clase a regular on this list.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |DL Hall |Angel Chivilli
Angel Chivilli ranks SECOND amongst relievers post All-Star break with a 23% SwStr rate behind only Josh Hader, and there definitely seems like there could be some sustainability to this as it comes with 29.6% ZContact – OSwing (also 2nd behind Hader) and 35.7% CSW rates (top 10). That being said, it’s even more surprising to see him hold just a 21.6% K rate with this swing and miss ability, plus Stuff+ and PLV are not big fans either.
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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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Sep 5, 2024 | 
pitcherlist.com | Rick Graham |Reed Garrett |Camilo Doval |Ryne Stanek
NYM. It’s been a struggle finding a reliable reliever in the Mets bullpen since the trade deadline outside of Edwin Díaz, as they take fliers on a bunch of guys and see what sticks approach hasn’t exactly worked out. Phil Maton has been the best option (1.84 ERA, 0.95 WHIP), but whether or not that is sustainable (3.72 xFIP, 25% K, 9.4% SwStr, 81 Stuff+) remains to be seen.
