Closer Monkey

Category: New York Yankees

  • Marlins’ Dylan Floro taking hold of closer role

    May 19, 2023 Miami Marlins – With A.J. Puk out, Dylan Floro has collected the past three saves for the Marlins, doing so in just a five-day stretch this week, including on Thursday. It sure seems like this is Floro’s job at this point, at least until Puk returns. Updated hierarchy: Floro | Scott |…

  • A proven closer collects another save

    May 17, 2023 New York Yankees – You read the Vulture Save Watch yesterday and knew Michael King still isn’t pitching on consecutive days, which paved the way for Clay Holmes in the eighth and Wandy Peralta in the ninth to close out a Yankee win. Hierarchy remains: *King | Peralta | Holmes.* = closer-by-committee…

  • Michael King earns 3rd save; Pete Fairbanks is back

    May 16, 2023 New York Yankees – After Ian Hamilton got into a little trouble in the 8th, Michael King came on and recorded the last four outs of the game to earn his 3rd save. King maintains his spot atop this committee, though we’d still like to see if/when he can pitch back to…

  • Wandy Peralta and Kendall Graveman record saves

    May 14, 2023 New York Yankees — Wandy Peralta pitched a scoreless 9th inning to pick up his second straight save. The Yankees bullpen is wide open right now and two straight saves are enough to get Peralta back on the hierarchy.  We will continue to monitor this situation to see if anybody can emerge…

  • A Wandy Peralta sighting and some short outing saves.

    May 13, 2023 New York Mets — David Robertson was brought in to face the 3-4-5 hitters in the bottom of the 8th in a 1 run game. He stuck around for the 9th but when he issued his second walk of the inning the Mets turned the game over to Drew Smith. Smith got…