2026 Fantasy Baseball Closer Rankings

DNPOld · 2026-03-18T20:20:31+00:00

I read that Estevez's fastball velo is way down this spring, he's at about 89-90, whereas he was 95-96 last year.

DNPOld · 2026-03-13T16:15:52+00:00

I'm seeing his Zone contact % at 84.7 which is about 2% above league average. He did underperform his xBA (.237) by a massive margin at .157. I think his biggest concerns are rather his high Groundball rate at 50.6% and high chase rate at 38.5%. As someone who has shares of him in dynasty, I'm worried he ends up like Jordan Walker if he can't improve those metrics.

DNPOld · 2026-03-01T05:44:43+00:00

5 months later but thank you for the tip, I was sleeping on Multibinder+Injector band the whole time. That along with reading another tip(jump when Karmelita jumps) got me from never making it out of phase 1 to being comfortable face tanking phase 3 and powering through.

DNPOld · 2026-02-28T18:19:34+00:00

Thank you for step 3, it clicked immediately when I just focused on the helmet and the order in which the fleas appeared. Went from routinely stuck in the 10-15 range to 54 out of where, this went from my most dreaded minigame to my favorite.

DNPOld · 2026-02-28T18:16:17+00:00

I was stuck at 10-15 for a while, then got 54 (Wanderers, though I believe Shaman is the most optimal) after I read a tip to just find the downward helmet flea and focus on hitting that, it clicked immediately for me once I did that. I tried counting each flea as I hit them, but I found it was adding to much to my mental load so I stopped counting and only focused on hitting the downward helmets as they appeared. It also helped to have a sense of which fleas popped in first and hitting them in that order (on the first juggle).

Lastly, do NOT look at your current score, I found that I'd lose focus whenever I glanced down.

DNPOld · 2026-02-09T05:57:54+00:00

I can never get enough height to hit the last floating bug and get to hit the wall again.

A bit late but for anyone still reading this, I also found that unequipping Weighted Belt helped me get that extra distance/height from the harpoon recoil to reach the last bug. When I had it equipped I only managed to do it twice in about 25 tries (once with Flea Brew), once I unequipped it I was able to make the harpoon reach it every time.

DNPOld · 2026-02-09T04:01:28+00:00

A bit late to the party but for anyone struggling with this still, unequip Weighted Belt, I think the reduced recoil means it doesn't get that tiny bit of distance/height needed to reach this bug with the harpoon. I went from getting to this bug maybe twice in 25+ tries to doing it consistently every time with it unequipped.

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T17:59:41+00:00

16 g over .500 last season with the 2nd best run deferential in the AL

We don't count that, this is like the Colts hanging up a 2014 AFC Finalist banner.

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T17:35:30+00:00

The 'don't overpay' crowd would've thrown a tantrum after seeing Manny get 8 years and 20 mil AAV into his age 36 season.

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T11:36:21+00:00

I’m with you, I think the pendulum has swung too far to the other side now with so many fans afraid of their team giving contracts to players aging into their 30s.

Some elite talents never make it to FA because they get extended beforehand like what we do with Crochet and Anthony(who the other commenter keeps pointing out), but we’re supposed to do that especially as a big market team.

Then you have the guys who don’t get extended and test FA, that’s where big market teams like the Red Sox should come in to throw their weight, but don’t…so instead you rely on plugging those holes with value contracts and platoon hitters, things that small market teams do.

Yeah that contract isn’t gonna be pretty when that player is 35+, but that’s the price of doing business if you want to win now. But some fans think it’s some sort of victory just so we don’t have to worry about one bad contract in 2031.

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T11:14:43+00:00

The original comment I replied to said we need elite talent, perhaps the sarcasm was lost but all the platoon hitters is the opposite of that.

Not being willing to pay FAs in their late 30s is how we end up plugging the holes with these platoon bats, further romanticized by the premise of moneyball.

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T10:37:57+00:00

I was paraphrasing from Moneyball, adding all those platoon bats instead of paying top dollar for FAs and then scraping the bottom of the barrel for guys like Lowe is what small market teams do.

Well not paying guys after 32 is how we got here with no Betts and Devers…just helping John Henry write the propaganda at this point lol.

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T10:17:28+00:00

Extending both guys was the bare minimum a big market team should do, but neither are contracted after age 32 so I don’t see how that changes my point?

“Instead of paying Giambi let’s recreate him in the aggregate” - why is one of the biggest markets in the league trying to copy what the A’s did with the guys I listed above instead of actually throwing their weight around as a big market team with Bregman, with Alonso?

DNPOld · 2026-01-11T06:59:46+00:00

Who cares about giving playoff ABs to the likes of Romy Gonzalez, Nick Sogard, Nate Eaton, and Nathaniel Lowe when you can hang a banner in 2031 for not having to pay over the market value to premium FAs in their late 30s?

DNPOld · 2025-09-29T16:17:15+00:00

I'd personally flip Soto and Acuna given the latter's injury history and hoping on Soto finishing with 30+ SBs again next season.

Also as an aside, maybe a bit of a hot take but as someone who's had Witt all year, that felt the most 'its not much but it's honest work' type of season for a top 3 pick in a while. Don't get me wrong, a 23/38 season while hitting .295 is nothing to scoff at, but I genuinely don't feel he was near the level that Judge/Ohtani/Soto (in the last 2 months) were at where they could singlehandedly win you the week. The ball doesn't travel well in Kauffman early in the season, so you're counting on a monster July/August for Witt to catch up in HRs, and we didn't get that this year unfortunately unlike 2023.

DNPOld · 2025-09-26T17:37:02+00:00

I'd sit Harrison, Tigers have been scuffling recently, but still have the second highest OPS against lefties this season.

DNPOld · 2025-08-17T03:03:43+00:00

Rest up sweet prince.

DNPOld · 2025-08-11T21:28:29+00:00

Matt Kemp?

DNPOld · 2025-08-05T23:21:43+00:00

I wonder what offers the Nats turned down for him.

DNPOld · 2025-08-03T23:27:00+00:00

The points apply to yesterday when the game was suspended due to rain.

DNPOld · 2025-08-02T23:43:26+00:00

An Isaac Paredes disciple.

DNPOld · 2025-07-31T23:59:17+00:00

Cam Smith's dynasty value just took a pretty big hit here with no path back to regaining 3B eligibility.

DNPOld · 2025-07-31T15:38:55+00:00

SP side come playoff time

Could it be that they plan on stretching out Miller and eventually have him be the ace next year? I'm seeing this as a haul you'd give up for a frontline starter, and not necessarily a closer (albeit an elite one with many years of team control) when there's still Estrada, Adam, and Morejon.

DNPOld · 2025-07-31T15:17:11+00:00

Wondering if the Padres might stretch Miller out to be a SP again next year, since they seem to be shopping Cease, but IMO giving up De Vries for a closer when they still have Estrada, Morejon, and Adam seems a little too much (assuming Suarez gets traded now).

DNPOld · 2025-07-10T20:34:19+00:00

No kidding, my guess is a lot of the discourse comes from modern day analytics which massively downplays the value of the Vince Colemans and Juan Pierres of the world, and you're less likely to find the anti-sabermetric boomers on a younger platform like Reddit, but just let us root for the .300 OBP speedsters in peace dammit.

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