Tag: Garrett Cleavinger

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | 3.23.2026

    Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | 3.23.2026

    With Opening Day two days away, our focus remains on spring results and potential changes in bullpen hierarchies. Today’s ledger features the Spring Training games from Sunday. For those interested in our premium option (ad-free content), please use this LINK; it is $30 and covers the season. This will be run via Substack for 2026.…

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | September 3

    Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | September 3

    Tuesday’s 14-game slate resulted in five reliever wins and eight saves, while they were tagged with six losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: For the save streamers: Vulture Save Options for September 3 Here are Tuesday’s leverage events of interest. Leverage Ladder Arizona Diamondbacks – Back from Triple-A, Taylor Rashi worked around two…

  • Monkey Bytes: September 20

    Monkey Bytes: September 20

    Two more teams punched their postseason tickets during Thursday’s slate: Cleveland and the Los Angeles Dodgers. As for relievers, five recorded wins and five secured saves. Our condensed recaps cover the high-leverage events of interest. Closer CliffsNotes Justin Martinez (ARI) retired the side and recorded a strikeout while closing a four-run win in Milwaukee. He…

  • Monkey Bytes: September 10

    Monkey Bytes: September 10

    Monday’s nine games yielded four reliever wins, though one was accompanied by a blown save (Carlos Estévez). Six pitchers secured saves, including two three-inning saves (José Suarez and Josh Winckowski). The Díaz brothers also recorded saves and are featured in today’s three takeaways below. Our condensed game recaps cover yesterday’s slate’s high-leverage events of interest.…

  • Monkey Bytes; June 13

    Wednesday provided five reliever wins and nine saves across a full 15-game slate. It featured another sullied save for Héctor Neris in Tampa Bay and a white-knuckle ride with Trevor Megill closing out a win over the Blue Jays. Today will mark the return of Edwin Díaz with the Mets, and his manager said he…