Tag: Robert Suarez

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 27

    Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 27

    Tuesday’s full 15-game slate provided a bevy of leverage events of interest. Relievers recorded seven wins and converted six saves while suffering seven losses. Here are the saves in condensed form: For the save streamers, another light forecast: Vulture Save Option for August 27 Three Takeaways (1) A reset for Hoffman? For a fifth time…

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 23

    Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 23

    Friday’s full slate yielded voluminous leverage events of interest, and last night did not disappoint. There are updates for 23 of the 30 teams from yesterday’s action in today’s post. Relievers recorded eight wins, though one was accompanied by a blown save (Trevor Megill), and eight saves while suffering nine losses. Of the eight saves,…

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 22

    Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 22

    Thursday’s nine-game slate yielded four reliever wins and six saves with only two losses. Of the six saves, three required four or more outs; here they are in condensed form: Vulture Save Options for August 22 News, Notes, and Observations IIt appears that the fantasy community and Ian Browne of MLB.com were too aggressive in…

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 13

    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,…

  • Closer Monkey’s Leverage Ledger | August 12

    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…