Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitchers

There is an interesting situation growing in the New York Mets bullpen and it involves the lightning rod of the New York relief pitching platoon, K-Rod. The Mets remain 10 games behind the Phillies in National League East and 6 1/2 games behind the Wild Card leading Atlanta Braves.  While the New Yorkers have surged [...]

Aroldis Chapman has always had a wild streak in him.  But, when you can throw a 105 MPH fastball, we tend to overlook things like that. But, when Chapman is not a closer, he has no business being on your roster.  Due to the walks, he’s never going to have a WHIP that is going [...]

  The Padres’ Heath Bell has converted 40 consecutive saves, a streak that goes back to May 29, 2010.  Bell’s streak of save conversions is the fifth-longest of all time. Bell is tied with Dennis Eckersley and Trevor Hoffman who also had 40 consecutive saves.  He is within one save of Rod Beck’s 41 straight. [...]

Jonathan Papelbon fantasy baseball Editor’s Note: The Fantasy Baseball King normally digs into our mailbag and provides some of the best fantasy baseball advice online each Wednesday. He had so many great questions this week, however, that Ballpark Bob and BeeZee felt a second post from the mailbag was in order. If you have any [...]

Jose Contreras of the Phillies is the latest closer to go down and end up on the disabled list and Ryan Madson is the closer, at least until Brad Lidge returns from the DL. It has been an especially brutal April for Major League closers with over 80 blown saves thus far.  If the trend [...]

Major League managers have a lot less patience with their closers than they used to.  And, there’s already been a few closers casualties already this year with Ryan Franklin getting booted in St. Louis and Joe Nathan getting the thumb in Minnesota. But, by the time you got this information, it might have been too late [...]

It’s only three weeks into the 2011 MLB season and already managers are losing patience with their closers.  Tony LaRussa has announced a closer change in St. Louis and Ron Gardenhire has done the same in Minnesota. Boggs New Closer in St. Louis Ryan Franklin has somehow done a very good job the past three [...]