Keeper league strategy: Closers

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Keeper league strategy: Closers (flag)

www.hardballtimes.com — Monday, August 25, 2008 Keeper league strategy: Closers Posted by Derek Carty at 7:38pm Last year around this time, I discussed a few keeper league strategies. One dealt with closers . I'll first restate the theory behind it here, changing a few examples to make them more current. After that, we'll look at how we can put it into practice this year. Closers in keeper leagues All ...

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The Hardball Times found this 8/26/2008

2 Comments

Derek Carty

+1

Eddie Guardado was actually traded shortly after I finished writing this piece, and Frank Francisco is closing in Texas. This makes him a better pickup now for keeper leaguers. If he's successful, he could enter 2009 as the closer (C.J. Wilson will still be trying to retake the job, though).

Posted 8/27/2008 respond (flag)
Derek Carty

+1

Also, Jon Rauch is still allowing runs, so if Lyon loses the job, it could instead go to Tony Pena or (probably less likely) Chad Qualls. If it does and Pena pitches well, he'd enter 2009 as the likely closer.

Posted 8/27/2008 respond (flag)