I've been playing fantasy baseball since 1993, and I don't ever remember a worse state of closers than this year.
From a fantasy baseball perspective, I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, as we're the supposed "experts," and that should give us a leg up with the dizzying collection of crap that are in positions to close, as opposed to the less-dedicated chum who would be lost in the soup.
That said, there are possibly only 8-10 closers who could be considered, at this time, to be "solid" or better. But we, the fantasy baseball aficionados, know that even among those 8-10, fully 25% will lose their jobs for some reason or another.
And even some good to great teams don't have clear-cut closing situations with just 2 weeks to go until the season starts -- the Dodgers, Phillies, Padres, Rays, etc.
I'm so old I can remember when a "bad" closing situation in fantasy was landing a shlubby-but-stable-type as your 2nd closer, like a Joe Borowski, Rocky Biddle or Mike Williams. Back then, a discussion with leaguemates would be "wow, Borowski is your 2nd closer? That's a big hole." Now, you can end up with 2-3 Borowskis who have no set position and you may say to yourself, "ehh, I'll be OK with them."
I get it, the closer-by-committee has laid ruin to fantasy baseball. But regardless, this year is still abysmal.
From a fantasy baseball perspective, I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, as we're the supposed "experts," and that should give us a leg up with the dizzying collection of crap that are in positions to close, as opposed to the less-dedicated chum who would be lost in the soup.
That said, there are possibly only 8-10 closers who could be considered, at this time, to be "solid" or better. But we, the fantasy baseball aficionados, know that even among those 8-10, fully 25% will lose their jobs for some reason or another.
And even some good to great teams don't have clear-cut closing situations with just 2 weeks to go until the season starts -- the Dodgers, Phillies, Padres, Rays, etc.
I'm so old I can remember when a "bad" closing situation in fantasy was landing a shlubby-but-stable-type as your 2nd closer, like a Joe Borowski, Rocky Biddle or Mike Williams. Back then, a discussion with leaguemates would be "wow, Borowski is your 2nd closer? That's a big hole." Now, you can end up with 2-3 Borowskis who have no set position and you may say to yourself, "ehh, I'll be OK with them."
I get it, the closer-by-committee has laid ruin to fantasy baseball. But regardless, this year is still abysmal.
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