Closer Monkey | 2026
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Closer Monkey Updated Rankings | 5.12.2025
Recognizing that ranking relievers can become outdated within hours, Closer Monkey’s updated rankings incorporate in-season results with rest-of-season potential, yielding a number often worth debating. Each week, we are providing saves, SOLDS, and holds rankings. Relievers on the Rise Closer Concerns Updated Top 40 Closers Rank Relievers 1 Mason Miller 2 Andrés Muñoz 3 Robert…
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Monkey Bytes | May 12
Sunday’s slate featured seven games decided by five runs or more, which capped the productivity of relievers. Still, they recorded six wins and four saves while suffering three losses. Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB Cam Booser 1 6 83.3 0 0:0 Aroldis Chapman 6 17 76.5 17.6 0:0 Trevor Megill 5 13 69.2…
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Monkey Bytes | May 11
Full slates on Saturday usually yield bountiful leverage events, and yesterday did not disappoint. Relievers recorded seven wins and seven saves while suffering five losses. Cubs fans and fantasy players were encouraged by who notched the save yesterday. Helsley held on for another traffic-infused save, and Don Kelly played match-ups during an eventual loss against…
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Monkey Bytes | May 10
There was some Friday night chaos across a bevy of high-leverage events, in particular, a wild contest in Arizona with multiple lead changes preceding a ninth-inning meltdown by Diamondback relievers: Relievers recorded four wins and secured nine saves while suffering three losses last night. Our takeaways feature a Cubs reliever “getting in work,” Bednar used…
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Monkey Bytes | May 9
Thursday’s nine-game slate produced fours across the board. Relievers recorded four wins, saves, and holds. They also suffered four losses and four blown saves. In a leverage ladder that lost Joe Jiménez before the season began, a closer struggling with contact was not what Brian Snitker hoped for. Plus, a Reds reliever cannot convert his…
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