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2017 Tiered Closer Rankings
March 3, 2017 Here are the Monkey’s closer rankings for 2017. As always, we’ve got them divided into tiers for your drafting ease. Tier 1 1. Kenley Jansen 2. Aroldis Chapman 3. Zach Britton Analysis: Not much to say about these guys. For the sake of semantics, we have Jansen above Chapman mainly because the…
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Closer Monkey hibernation
Closer Monkey is going into hibernation for the winter, but as always, we wanted to say thank you to all of our subscribers for a great year. We tried our best to respond to your feedback from previous seasons (speed! speed! and more speed!) and are happy to report that our average alert time this…
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Wade Davis returns from the DL
September 3, 2016 Kansas City Royals — Wade Davis was activated from the DL on Friday, and Ned Yost immediately threw him into the fire. After the Royals took a one-run lead, Davis got a save opportunity in his first action since July. He promptly hit the first batter he faced, and after a double and…
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C.J. Edwards collects first career save
September 2, 2016 Chicago Cubs — As the Vulture Save Watch predicted, C.J. Edwards was called upon in the ninth Thursday with closer Aroldis Chapman needing the night off. Edwards picked up his first career save, one of a few developing storylines for the Chicago bullpen. The Cubs activated reliever Joe Smith from the disabled list…