RELIEVERS: In times of chaos, look to skills projections

One week in and everything has devolved into day-to-day madness. You really just have to embrace it and take your shots. Then when it all changes, take some more shots. Staying nimble and flexible seems to be as important as anything else. This column will talk about some pens that have come up over and over again and probably will again later on, too. Here we go.

So Cole Sulser (RHP, BAL), huh? Baltimore put Sulser out there instead of Mychal Givens (RHP, BAL) and were rewarded with Sv(1). Then after taking a late lead on Thursday against the Yankees they put Sulser out there again. Walk, single, 3-run shot by Aaron Judge (OF, NYY) and Sulser added a BS/L(1). Not what you want.

But why would you FAAB Sulser anyway? Let's look at the...

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