2K21 Closer thread

[chancellor]

And now Yates is officially a Blue Jay

The Jays have some pieces for a pretty formidable bullpen now - Yates closing, Romano, Dolis, and Bass setting up, Stripling and Borucki for multi-inning duty. Not a lot of big names, but that looks awfully solid to me.

[TranaGreg]

The Jays have some pieces for a pretty formidable bullpen now - Yates closing, Romano, Dolis, and Bass setting up, Stripling and Borucki for multi-inning duty. Not a lot of big names, but that looks awfully solid to me.

yeah, we're just missing a loogy ... Tim Mayza has a free pass onto the roster unless someone else gets signed

[Ken]

yeah, we're just missing a loogy ... Tim Mayza has a free pass onto the roster unless someone else gets signed

Aren't loogy's gone with the 3 batter minimum?

[Bene Futuis]

3 batters or end an inning, que no?

[chancellor]

Rotoworld just added that Toronto is in on Brad Hand, too. If that's for real, that will be an extremely formidable bullpen.

[chancellor]

3 batters or end an inning, que no?

Si, estas en lo correcto.

[Ken]

3 batters or end an inning, que no?

I guess that makes them a Lefty One Out Guy Who Comes In Only With Two Outs And Continues Pitching If They Don't Get That One Hitter Out.

LOOGWCIOWTOACPITDGTOHO

Too many letters for my taste.

[The Feral Slasher]

I guess that makes them a Lefty One Out Guy Who Comes In Only With Two Outs And Continues Pitching If They Don't Get That One Hitter Out.

LOOGWCIOWTOACPITDGTOHO

Too many letters for my taste.

um, you have no idea what a field of land mines you just stepped in. I'll give you a bit of time to exit gracefully, in spite of your mischaracterizations. you are one step forward away from stepping on a really big one.

#BOOM

[Ken]

um, you have no idea what a field of land mines you just stepped in. I'll give you a bit of time to exit gracefully, in spite of your mischaracterizations. you are one step forward away from stepping on a really big one.

#BOOM

I see what you did there

[ThatRogue]

Hand signs with the Nats, which caught a couple of people by surprise (and by people, I mean me). A double whammy for the Mets.

(I guess this means my $3 Daniel Hudson is no longer a keeper.)

[ThatRogue]

Changing from what Gregg originally asked, it seems a lot of us are buying somewhere from partially to entirely into speculative closers on the cheap. I haven't done my analysis yet, but if the Cubs are foolish enough to go back to Kimbrel, I'll be all over the closer in waiting there.

Last season, I FAABed Jeffress at $8 and kept Wick at $3 (per your astute advice). Going into this season, I may not know what to do with them until late in spring training.

[joncarlos]

Last season, I FAABed Jeffress at $8 and kept Wick at $3 (per your astute advice). Going into this season, I may not know what to do with them until late in spring training.

I think Kimbrel is probably underrated. He deserved that bad BABIP last year and he walked 7 per 9... and yet... he also had 16 K/9 and his velocity was slightly improved. His FIP was 3.97 and his xFIP was 3.79... and while I know that's skewed by his crazy K rate, it's still intriguing. The Cubs would probably love to have him close for a while and be useful enough to trade.

[Ken]

Hand signs with the Nats, which caught a couple of people by surprise (and by people, I mean me).

I read that three times before I realized you were talking about Brad Hand. The original context had me thinking we had another sign stealing scandal.

[joncarlos]

Alex Colome to the Twins, likely to close. Breaks the heart of Taylor Rogers owners everywhere.

Joakim Soria to the D-Backs, likely to close. Sorry, Stefan Crichton owners, but at least you didn't pay much.

Sean Doolittle to the Reds, giving them another lefty and freeing Amir Garrett to work the 9th. Though you probably still see a mix of Sims and Garrett.

[ThatRogue]

Yeah, I added Diaz and a couple others that I had missed. Hader really scares me. Handcuffing him to Williams is a crazy high price (like two top 12 round picks for one closer?).

Isn't the combination of Hader and Williams the equivalent of a top tier SP, just with Saves instead of Wins? One system projects the following combined stats for them: 10W, 41S, 153 IP, 234K, 2.57 ERA, 0.96 WHIP. That's like getting deGrom's stats in his 2018 & 2019 Cy Young seasons...plus adding Saves to the mix. I'd gladly take that for the cost of a 5th plus a 12th round pick.