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Rick Graham’s (@iAmRickGraham) RP Streamer Rankings for Fantasy Baseball: 6/14. Find relievers to stream for today’s games with updated bullpen depth charts. pitcherlist.com/relief-pitch…
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Rick Graham’s (@iAmRickGraham) RP Roundup for Fantasy Baseball: 6/12. A review of every key bullpen and reliever performance from yesterday’s games. pitcherlist.com/fantasy-base…
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Louis Varland - Toronto Blue Jays: Save Converted ✅ (12) 1.0 IP | 2 K | Final: NYY 5, TOR 8
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Rick Graham’s (@iAmRickGraham) RP Streamer Rankings for Fantasy Baseball: 6/13. Find relievers to stream for today’s games with updated bullpen depth charts. pitcherlist.com/relief-pitch…
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Ryan Walker spent a week at Giants pitch lab in Scottsdale before going to Triple-A, said he made some mechanical changes and slightly altered pitch mix. Tony Vitello indicated he’ll be more of a “fireman” right now as starters come out. Caleb Kilian is the current closer.
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Brewers rookie righty Coleman Crow has been placed on 15-day injured list with a right forearm flexor strain, retroactive to June 10. RHP Craig Yoho recalled from Triple-A Nashville.
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A.J. Puk has had his rehab paused due to left shoulder discomfort. He will undergo an MRI. Another blow for a rehabbing Diamondbacks pitcher following the Corbin Burnes setback earlier this month.
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The Tigers today activated RHP Kenley Jansen off the 10-day injured list, selected the contract of RHP Jacob Waguespack (#58) and added OF James Outman (#43) to the active roster. All three players are available tonight in the series opener at Cleveland. To make room on the active roster, RHP Beau Brieske was optioned to Triple-A Toledo after yesterday’s game, INF Zack Short was designated for assignment and RHP Brenan Hanifee was optioned to Triple-A.
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My MLB All-Star Ballot- AL: Cade Smith Louis Varland Aroldis Chapman Bryan Baker Jacob Latz Grant Taylor Rico Garcia Erik Sabrowski (IL, so Daniel Lynch IV next man up) NL: Mason Miller Jhoan Duran Tanner Scott Raisel Iglesias Dylan Lee Robert Suarez Juan Morillo Anthony Bender
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The Giants optioned Carson Seymour and are bringing Ryan Walker back. Walker had pitched well in his time back in Triple-A.
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Rick Graham’s (@iAmRickGraham) RP Roundup for Fantasy Baseball: 6/11. A review of every key bullpen and reliever performance from yesterday’s games. pitcherlist.com/fantasy-base…
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Rick Graham’s (@iAmRickGraham) RP Streamer Rankings for Fantasy Baseball: 6/12. Find relievers to stream for today’s games with updated bullpen depth charts. pitcherlist.com/relief-pitch…
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Cleveland #Guardians are promoting 25-year-old RHP prospect Daniel Espino before the Tigers series starts on Friday. Espino will make his MLB debut working out of the bullpen. #GuardsBall
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Ryan Helsley looked excellent during his first rehab outing for Triple-A Norfolk. Scoreless inning, three strikeouts, one single allowed. 14 pitches, 12 strikes. Fastball averaged 97.7 mph, topped out at 99.7 mph. Two strikeouts on splitters, another on a slider.
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For those who think "closers" don’t matter… 1. Closer has missed significant time 2. Closer has missed significant time 3. No set closer, been a revolving door 4. No set closer, been a revolving door 5. No set closer, been a revolving door 6. No set closer, been a revolving door 7. No set closer, been a revolving door 8. Closer has missed significant time 9. Closer/setup guy have missed time 10. No set closer, been a revolving door
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The bullpens that are struggling fall mostly into two buckets. The teams that went into the season hoping they could make things work without a true “ace” type reliever in their bullpen (MIN, LAA, SFG, COL, WSN, ATH) or teams whose best relievers have missed time due to injury (CIN, BAL, HOU, DET, KCR). PIT and CHW are right behind those teams, but they at least spent a little money bringing in Soto and Seranthony (plus having talents like Montgomery and Taylor in the wings) TB could have fallen in that first committee group, but also, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise to see Baker pitching this well (plus the Uceta/Cleavinger injuries). STL spent on Stanek ($3.5M), I guess, and had O’Brien and Romero. We’ll see how this bullpen fares moving forward. Overall, it’s been better than expected. TEX is an outlier maybe, but Junis ($4M MLB contract) and Latz (good starter turned reliever) are doing the heavy lifting there.
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My top 12 bullpens right now: 12. NYY 11. MIA 10. BOS 9. MIL 8. TOR 7. NYM 6. CLE 5. SEA 4. PHI 3. LAD 2. SDP 1. ATL
This week on @InThePenPod, both @IAmRickGraham and @jakecrumpler rank their top bullpens in the league, as well as discuss risers and fallers on Rick's latest set of ranks youtu.be/pPnSEMWERw4
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Rick Graham’s (@iAmRickGraham) RP Roundup for Fantasy Baseball: 6/10. A review of every key bullpen and reliever performance from yesterday’s games. pitcherlist.com/fantasy-base…
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Kyle Hurt first 11 IP: 0.82 ERA (1.42 SIERA), 0.64 WHIP, 36.6% K-BB 🔥 Kyle Hurt last 10.1 IP: 7.84 ERA (4.77 SIERA), 1.84 WHIP, 6.4% K-BB ☹️

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Tigers reliever Kenley Jansen was a bit "rusty" in his rehab outing on Wednesday in Toledo, but A.J. Hinch said he was still on track to be reinstated after a minimum 15-day stay on the injured list (or very close to it). That points to Jansen returning for Friday’s series opener in Cleveland, which is the first day he is eligible.
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