Closer Monkey

Category: Oakland A’s

  • Rays’ Pete Fairbanks returns, records save as Jason Adam sets him up

    June 16, 2023 Tampa Bay Rays — Pete Fairbanks returned from the IL Thursday and slid right into ninth-inning duty, retiring the side on 10 pitches to earn his seventh save. Jason Adam pitched the eighth inning. We’ll move Fairbanks to the front of this committee as a result. Updated hierarchy: *Fairbanks | Adam |…

  • Matt Carasiti, Ricky Karcher, Ken Waldichuk: a trifecta of first-career saves

    June 13, 2023 Colorado Rockies – Matt Carasiti was drafted by the Rockies in 2012. Then, in late 2022, he was re-signed by the Rockies to a minor league contract. In the 10 years in between, he had two cups of coffee in the bigs (2016 and 2019) amidst stops in eight other places, including…

  • Kendall Graveman to lead closer committee after Hendriks injury

    June 12, 2023 Arizona Diamondbacks – After Andrew Chafin allowed two of the first three hitters to reach in the 9th inning, Scott McGough was summoned to bail him out. McGough (2.97 ERA, 0.87 WHIP) has not allowed an earned run in a month, a stretch of 14.2 innings. He may be entering the closer…

  • Clay Holmes moves back to the top of the Yankees hierarchy

    June 11, 2023 New York Yankees – Clay Holmes pitched a scoreless 9th inning with a pair of strikeouts yesterday to pick up his 8th save of the season.  Tommy Kahnle recorded the 8th inning hold ahead of Holmes and he has four scoreless appearances since his debut at the beginning of June.  Holmes has…

  • May has 2 saves in June

    June 10, 2023Colorado Rockies — On Friday Bud Black made good on his promise to address the closer situation, kind of. He formally removed Pierce Johnson from the closer’s role, but wouldn’t name a consistent ninth inning arm going forward. The clear top pick is Justin Lawrence, who currently leads our committee, but if you…