Tag: Josh Hader
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | 10.21.2025
Beginning our end of the season recaps lands on Fantasy Pros preseason ADP as a guide for how fantasy players did targeting relievers. For our purposes, I am using 12-team leagues as the standard. Since 2023, here are the reliever trends in the site’s amalgamated average draft position rankings in five-round pockets: Link: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gECTn/1/ Adding…
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | 9.19
Thursday’s ten-game slate provided high-leverage events, but ancillary or vulture saves proved bountiful. Relievers recorded two wins, six saves, and suffered two losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: Usage patterns and ten teams being off on Thursday yield a light forecast for the saves chasers: Vulture Save Options for September 19 News, Notes,…
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | 9.13
Full slate Fridays produce a multitude of high-leverage events, and last night did not disappoint, including a walk-off grand slam, tightening up the National League Wild Card race: Relievers recorded seven wins, though two were accompanied by a blown save (Cole Sands and Carlos Vargas), and seven saves while suffering six losses. Here are the…
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 13
Once again, Houston steals the introduction, placing its closer, Josh Hader, on the 15-day injured list: Manager Joe Espada would not commit to defined roles during future save chances, making this another dreaded post-trade deadline committee, covered by Brian McTaggart in this post for MLB.com: Bryan Abreu has nine career saves, without one this season,…
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Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 12
As the game progressed, it seemed inevitable that Josh Hader would take over at the top of the ninth against the Red Sox to protect a one-run lead. He has only missed time once, a ten-game stint with a COVID-19 designation in 2021. However, when he was not warming up at the bottom of the…