Jorge Montanez breaks down the last week in saves and middle relievers on the rise in the latest closer report.

Major League Baseball reversed a multi-year trend in 2023 when most teams opted to have a consistent closer. A dozen men blew past the 30-save plateau, with another 11 hurlers accumulating more ...

2025 Fantasy Baseball Closer Rankings We are officially a few days away from Opening Day in the MLB. It is time for the first official Closer Report of the season.

The story of the Major League Baseball closer is not unlike the story of man. It's an evolutionary saga. A few years back, an asteroid fell to earth. When it cracked open, humanoid apes crawled ...

Right now it's looking like a wise move, and even had Pitching Ninja deem the new A's closer "the most electric pitcher in baseball." Mason Miller, Obliterating the Side.

His teammate Tim Hill got into trouble in the top of the eighth inning, and manager Aaron Boone didn’t hesitate to call Weaver to get him out of trouble. He did just that, pitching 1.2 frames ...

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

The closer stability from last season has impacted ’24 drafts, as managers have a greater pool of reliable options than in recent years. [ Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the ...

Perhaps that’s the problem. No position player in baseball takes a more constant beating than the catcher. And as teams across the board covet the low-strike call, catchers take the brunt of the ...