Relievers April 2025 leaders and dogs

It is already the end of April. The closers you might expect to lead the league do not and closers you might expect to lose their jobs have not. Certainly the Athletics closer Mason Miller (RHP, ATH) has lived up to elite expectations, and Andrés Muñoz (RHP, SEA) has done the same for the Seattle Mariners

But what about Carlos Estévez (RHP, KC) with nine saves in April for the Kansas City Royals and a nice 2.40 actual ERA and 1.13 WHIP despite a 5.01 xERA and 6% K%-BB%? These kinds of anomalies are going to exist at the 15-inning mark. Relievers can still be expected to be pretty volatile in results versus exhibited skills. 

This column runs through the leaderboard and checks in on exhibited skills and projections. Then a quick...

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