2023 Fantasy Baseball Week 4 Closer Tracker: A.J. Minter, Jose Alvardo, More (4/28/23)
Welcome to the Week 4 Closer Tracker update! It's been an eventful week on the closing front, so let's skip the usual preamble and dive right in for updates and takeaways.
In the space below, I’ve created a Closer Tracker that will hopefully stay ahead of the closer curve. I’m going to update this every Friday for the rest of the season, so please feel free to send feedback if there’s anything you’d like to see.
The Closer Tracker is organized in three ways:
- In the left column, you’ll find my closer power rankings. This order is based on a mix of current statistics weighted (in my mind) with how I think these players will perform over the rest of the season.
- In the third column, you’ll see my best attempt at quantifying how stable a closer’s job is. Or said another way, how closely do you have to pay attention to this situation?
- In the right column, you’ll find the player who looks to be next in line. If you see red in the third column, you should probably grab the player next in line off the waiver wire.
Lastly, keep scrolling all the way to the bottom for my top takeaways. I promise this isn’t a marketing trick – I just don’t want to spoil the Closer Tracker.
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Top takeaways:
- A.J. Minter has had a rough week so I've moved him down the list. Raisel Iglesias looks to be set to return at some point in May (which is soon!) so stash him if you can. And move Minter if you can too.
- Ryan Pressly isn't being used as much as we'd all like, so I moved him down a bit as well. While Rafael Montero is technically next in line, I've scooped up Brayan Abreu in a lot of leagues as he could leapfrog Montero. And he's been a great source of cheap strikeouts regardless.
- Pete Fairbanks hasn't gotten a ton of save opportunities, but I moved him into my top-10 as he's established himself as the Rays closer.
- Jose Alvardo is still technically part of a committee, but he looks to be the guy for the Phillies so I'm going to consider him their closer and moved him up a bit this week.
- Ditto Jhoan Duran. He's the Twins closer whether they want to admit it or not.
- Aroldis Chapman has allowed runs in his past two appearances, but I still think he'll have the Royals' closer job to himself within the next month or so.
- Jeurys Familia seems to have taken the A's closer job. Zach Jackson will factor in, but Familia is the guy I'm grabbing.
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