As I sit here and awake from my winter’s hibernation, I search for and do only the essentials. Gold chain, check. I also tell myself that the transition from Fantasy Soccer to Fantasy Baseball will be as easy as riding a bike. But you forget, I’m a bear. Nonetheless, here we are fantasy folks and four female folkers. Baseball 2018 is already in high gear with posts from the usual gaggle, and as always my contribution is at the back-end of ball games. Namely saves, holds, and relief pitchers that have intrinsic mixed league value and individual league value heading into the draft stages of this new and bright year. So keeping it simple, I formed a chart that will be included it in every week’s post that will have the bullpen pictures of all MLB teams, updating it with every sleeper or bullpen post… because I am a giver. That and who knows what will happen in the forthcoming weeks that may skew the dynamics of the bullpens around the fantasy world? Once Grey starts doing his pitcher rankings, I will then drop my own rankings in proper fashion. Til then, sit back relax, ask questions about almost anything relating to bullpens or closers, as I will gladly be here as always for my ninth season here at Razzball. So it is with pleasure that I can bring you the first bullpen related post of the year. Individual closer and reliever posts are on the way. Enjoy!
American League
TEAM
CLOSER
SETUP
SLEEPER
BAL
Brad Brach
Darren O’Day
Mychal Givens
BOS
Craig Kimbrel
Matt Barnes
Carson Smith
CLE
Cody Allen
Andrew Miller
Tyler Olson
CWS
Juan Minaya
Joakim Soria
Nate Jones
DET
Shane Greene
Alex Wilson
Daniel Stumpf
HOU
Ken Giles
Will Harris
Chris Devenski
KC
Kelvin Herrera
Brandon Maurer
Wily Peralta
LAA
Blake Parker
Cam Bedrosian
Keynan Middleton
MIN
Fernando Rodney
Addison Reed
Gabriel Moya
NYY
Aroldis Chapman
David Robertson
Chad Green
OAK
Blake Treinen
Liam Hendriks
Chris Hatcher
SEA
Edwin Diaz
Juan Nicasio
David Phelps
TB
Alex Colome
Dan Jennings
Andrew Kittredge
TEX
Alex Claudio
Keone Kela
José Leclerc
TOR
Roberto Osuna
Ryan Tepera
Carlos Ramirez
National League
TEAM
CLOSER
SETUP
SLEEPER
ARZ
Archie Bradley
Brad Boxberger
Jimmie Sherfy
ATL
Arodys Vizcaino
Jose Ramirez
A.J. Minter
CHC
Brandon Morrow
Carl Edwards Jr.
Steve Cishek
CIN
Raisel Iglesias
Michael Lorenzen
Kevin Shackelford
COL
Wade Davis
Jake McGee
Adam Ottavino
LAD
Kenley Jansen
Josh Fields
Scott Alexander
MIA
Brad Ziegler
Kyle Barraclough
Drew Steckenrider
MIL
Corey Knebel
Jacob Barnes
Josh Hader
NYM
Jeurys Familia
A.J. Ramos
Anthony Swarzak
PHI
Hector Neris
Pat Neshek
Hoby Milner
PIT
Felipe Rivero
Daniel Hudson
George Kontos
SD
Brad Hand
Craig Stammen
Kirby Yates
SF
Mark Melancon
Sam Dyson
Cory Gearrin
STL
Luke Gregerson
Tyler Lyons
Dominic Leone
WAS
Sean Doolittle
Ryan Madson
Brandon Kintzler
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