Fantasy Baseball Relief Pitchers

  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 [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, Brian Wilson of the San Francisco Giants has become a bit of a pop culture star since he stopped shaving and the Giants won the World Series last season. He and Giants outfielder Cody Ross recently filmed a video with YouTube star Keenan Cahill. Check it out… He got off [...]

It is said that 20% of all saves are never even drafted in fantasy baseball; they are all waiver wire pickups.  Well, there are certainly some attractive waiver wire pickups available now in your fantasy baseball league.  Try taking a pitch at these guys to get that early lead in saves. Brian Fuentes, Oakland A’s [...]

If you looked at the MLB depth charts before the season started, you would have thought that Drew Storen had been tabbed as the Nationals’ closer.  Not so fast. Twice this week, the Nationals used Tyler Clippard in the seventh, followed by Storen in the eighth and the ninth inning, and the corresponding save, went [...]