The fantasy baseball season is down to its last couple weeks, and nailing the closer carousel is an ever important task. Let's take a look at the changing reliever situations around the league and what it means for our lineups.

 

Oakland Athletics

Perhaps it has been situational based, but the A’s have turned over the ball to Domingo Acevedo for their last two save opportunities, and he’s been brilliant, nailing both of them down in fine fashion. Acevedo presents an interesting test case as a closer. He does not record the whiffs that we would like; in 64.2 innings, he’s posted only a 21.7% strikeout rate. Where Acevedo excels is generating a healthy amount of groundballs, evidenced by a whopping 41.5% mark. He also doesn’t burn...

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