Dedniel Núñez

+ Ranking baseball's top relievers for the 2025 season. We are a week away from Opening Day now (outside of the Japan series) and while there is still plenty of uncertainty as far as who will be closing out games, we don’t need to worry about that too much here as we are talking SV+HLD leagues.

+ Ranking baseball's top setup options for the 2024 season. We have a few lefties charging up the board this week, all names we have seen in the top 50 or so on this list in the past due to their strikeout upside. I talked about Anthony Banda last week when covering the Dodgers bullpen, and how Banda appears to have moved past Alex Vesia in the pecking order. Since the All-Star break Banda holds 28.2% K-BB rate, 22.3% SwStr and 37.2% CSW rates as well as a 2.26 xFIP over 18 innings.

+ Top 100 RP rankings for Saves + Holds leagues in 2024. David Robertson, Bryan Abreu, Jorge Alcala, John Brebbia, Emmanuel Clase, Fernando Cruz, Jason Foley, Josh Hader, Jeff Hoffman, Dedniel Núñez and Kirby Yates all had three SV+HLDs this past week with Robertson racking up four holds. Robertson may be having the best season of his career at age 37 and should net the Rangers a good return this deadline (Yates as well).