RELIEVERS: 2022 Who's who in the early going
May 1 2022
This week, the column takes what we have through April 26 and filters for value production and chops it into different lists to see what we can learn. Here is the first list--closers with a value at or above $10 (standard 15-team 5x5 leagues):
closers $10+ W Sv BS Hld IP ERA xERA WHIP K% K%-BB% HR/9 $ ================= == == == === ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====== ==== === J.Hader (MIL) (L) 0 9 0 0 8.3 0.00 2.43 0.48 41% 34% 0.0 27 J.Romano (TOR) 1 8 1 0 9.3 1.93 2.84 0.96 31% 25% 1.0 22 R.Iglesias (LAA) 1 4 0 0 7.7 1.17 2.38 0.26 40% 40% 1.2 18 J.Lopez (BAL) 1 4 0 0 9.0 2.00 2.62 1.11 35% 24% 0.0 11 T.Rogers (SD) (L) 0 5 1 0 6.7 0.00 2.49 0.60 29% 25% 0.0 ...
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