Tag: Bryan Abreu
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Monkey Bytes | June 27
Thursday’s nine-game slate featured four shutouts and four games decided by five or more runs. Relievers recorded three wins and three saves while getting tagged with two losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB BF Tanner Scott 17 17 52.9 17.6 1:0 3 Pete Fairbanks 15 4…
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Monkey Bytes | June 17
Monday’s seven-game slate provided plenty of actionable, high-leverage content and results. Relievers recorded four wins and five saves, including a career-first, while suffering three losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Reliever Save # Pitches Strike% SwStr% K:BB BF Aroldis Chapman 13 13 76.9 53.8 3:0 3 Seth Halvorsen 4 15 53.3 0 0:0…
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Monkey Bytes | April 10
Wednesday’s full slate provided many turbulent outings and close contests. Relievers recorded eight wins and seven losses while converting six saves. However, there were five blown saves, though the roughest appearances were by closers in non-save capacities. Three Takeaways (1) Edwin’s velocity: Working with reduced velocity, Edwin Díaz struggled in a non-save appearance at the…
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Monkey Bytes | April 8
Monday’s 11-game slate yielded seven saves, one win by a reliever, though a blown save accompanied it. Relievers also suffered two losses. One recorded his first career save in a piggyback appearance spanning four innings, and there was a one-out save. Which segues into our three takeaways. Three Takeaways (1) Santillan’s save: A fantasy favorite…
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Closer Monkey’s Top 75 for SOLDS
While those in saves formats try figuring out who will win camp competitions for the ninth inning, fantasy managers in SOLDS leagues can focus on the best relievers, preferably on winning teams, when building rosters. For example, relievers provide more SOLDS than saves, illustrated in this chart showing trends for the last three years: There…