Will be going through my initial top 50 relievers for saves at 2pm ET today

With a day and a half left, 100% of the goal!! Thank you all so much for the support, and let's get to $15k now! givebutter.com/3kjjmC

30 minutes until day 2 of PitchCon! What presentation are you most looking forward to today??

Talking Reliever Sleepers with @gjewett9.bsky.social and @mikecarter0508.bsky.social in two hours!

PitchCon starts TOMORROW! Our full schedule for the event, starting at 11 AM ET on Twitch! twitch.tv/pitcherlist

The end of January is approaching, and that means only one thing.... It's time for PitchCon.

Highly recommend reading Carson’s BABIP article from today. This is the first BABIP article of a four part series, so stay tuned! Understanding BABIP Pt. 1: Pitchers pitcherlist.com/understandin...

The funny thing about the Red Sox and NTC’s is that the only player they’ve given one to in a long term contract was Chris Sale…who they eventually traded for a bag of chips anyway…and Sale has gone on to post a 10 fWAR over the past two seasons.

how ANYONE can watch this video and conclude that this ICE agent was in the right here is inconceivable. Yet, the consensus on X seems to be that this was a justified murder, which is so depressing, and makes it so hard to have faith in humanity. “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.”

Some personal news today (I may go a bit long).

I’m incredibly honored for this new opportunity at @pitcherlist.com and looking forward to what’s next as we have some pretty big things in the pipeline…so stay tuned 👀

Kirby Yates: Inks one-year deal with Angels https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/player/kirby-yates-13221

The Guardians are building a TE room with their bullpen. Just need to swap in Franco Aleman for Matt Festa now.

Teams who could still use a closer: MIN A's TEX WAS AZ SFG MIA? CWS? STL? LAA? Remaining Free Agent Relievers: P Fairbanks S Armstrong S Dominguez T Kinley P Johnson S Barlow K Yates M Kopech P Sewald R Stanek

Phillies get their Jeff Hoffman replacement two years later

Nice career turn for Kolek after being selected 2nd overall by the Marlins in 2014

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Top 5 Remaining Free Agent Relievers: Pete Fairbanks Luke Weaver Brad Keller Shawn Armstrong Seranthony Domínguez Bit of a drop off after this group…

Edwin Diaz agrees to Dodgers deal

Per Alden González, the Padres plan to keep Mason Miller, Adrian Morejón and David Morgan in their bullpen next season.

Ferrer has a fun pitch mix (98 MPH sinker as a LHP) that hypothetically should result in better strikeout rates, but he’s improved over the past two years, and finished this season on a high note as he dominated in the second half (2.53 xFIP, 21.1% K-BB, 109 Stuff+). Nice compliment to Speier

They even got The Village People to close it out 😂

This FIFA World Cup draw is a bit right? Like this whole thing is a bit?

Happy FanGraphs Walk-Off Day to those who celebrate

Went back to 2023 pitch usage, plus added 2 MPH to his fastball (cutter). The pitch also had better shape and better zone rate. Curveball also had better locations. Increased sinker usage worked last year, not sure if it’s effective long term. The sweeper usage could improve.

First 24 IP: 5.70 xERA, 1.54 WHIP, 23.1% K Pitch Usage - 4S (29.9%), SI (23.9%), SL (13.9%), CH (32.3%) Last 43 IP: 1.97 xERA, 0.69 WHIP, 30.4% K Pitch Usage - 4S (46.3%), SI (22.6%), SL (7.5%), CH (24.4%) Will success from increased 4seam usage over second half continue in 2026?

LOB% was 55.2%, his career mark is 75.8%, .299 BABIP highest since 2021 K rate was “down” (34.7%), but walk rate was his lowest since 2020 (the changeup may have caught too much of the plate?) Overall, the underlying metrics point to Williams returning to top 5-6 closer status.

Hi-Location FB down 8% (13th percentile) Lo-Location FB up (94th percentile) Overall F-Str% was down 8.4% Slider PutAway% down 10% last year Fix “tipping” issue, locate FB up in the zone, and get ahead of hitters = the slider being a PutAway pitch again and a bounce back 2026.

Pagán vs. LH hitters 2025: .161 BA against, .507 OPS against Career: .215 BA against, .721 OPS against Pagán’s Splitter BABIP 2022-25 22: .362 23: .364 24: .455 25: .182! Splitters are volatile and I’d expect some negative regression from Pagán but I still think he can be OK.

Not sure what this means but it makes sense

Let’s go @mikecarter0508.bsky.social & @iamrickgraham.pitcherlist.com !

Way to Early Closer Rankings for 2026 pitcherlist.com/top-100-clos...

PLV RP Leaders through 8/24 G Jax (5.48) T Megill (5.46) R Detmers (5.45) T Scott (5.42) R Rodriguez (5.38) A Chapman (5.35) S Okert (5.32) L Varland (5.27) J Estrada (5.27) J Hader (5.26) A Vesia (5.26) G Speier (5.25) B Casparius (5.23) Ty Rogers (5.23) J A Ferrer (5.22)

Random, fun MLB trade deadline predictions: LAD: Helsley PHI: Bednar TEX: Fairbanks BOS: R Iglesias CHC: P Johnson DET: S Miller/K Finnegan TOR: D Santana NYM: Seranthony HOU: P Maton CIN: C Doval NYY: J Bird

For the third time, Phillies are acquiring David Robertson. The 40-year-old is signing a major-league deal. He threw Saturday for scouts. News from @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...

IF the Nationals are able to find a taker for Kyle Finnegan, who do we think takes over as closer in Washington? Lord or Ferrer?

Good Gracious, They Fixed David Bednar blogs.fangraphs.com/good-graciou...

Qualified relievers with an ERA under 2.00, WHIP under 1.00 and K rate over 25% Randy Rodríguez (All-Star) Aroldis Chapman (All-Star) Andrés Muñoz (All-Star) Daniel Palencia Adrian Morejon (All-Star) Edwin Díaz (All-Star) Shelby Miller (Injured)

Early look at which closers could get moved at this years trade deadline pitcherlist.com/15-closers-t...

Since April 20th (6 week sample): Devin Williams- 2.81 xFIP, 2.47 SIERA, 34.6% K, 25% K-BB, 15.7% SwStr, 29% CSW, 42.3% GB, 34.1% HardHit, 109 Stuff+ Luke Weaver- 4.65 xFIP, 4.37 SIERA, 20.4% K, 16.7% K-BB, 13.3% SwStr, 24.6% CSW, 19.5% GB, 25.9% HardHit, 99 Stuff+

Jeff Hoffman’s May numbers: 13.50 ERA, 2.00 WHIP, 16% K-BB 3.53 SIERA, 32.8% CSW, 113 Stuff+ 38.5% HR/FB over the past month is the second highest in baseball

Trevor Story is slashing .130/.187/.160 over the past month. His wRC+ of -8 is the lowest amongst 185 qualified hitters, 30 points lower than Brenton Doyle’s 28 (Kristian Campbells is 3rd lowest at 29). So how much longer are we going to have to wait for Mayer to get called up?

The Hold Up: 5/22 pitcherlist.com/the-hold-up-...

Who would you rather roster right now based on these relievers stats over the past month? Closer A: 1.32 SIERA, 37% K-BB, 38.2% CSW, 2 SV Closer B: 5.13 SIERA, 5.2% K-BB, 19% CSW, 8 SV

Closing Time: 5/13 (also my 700th Pitcher List post) pitcherlist.com/closing-time...

Closing Time 5/6 pitcherlist.com/closing-time...

My flight home has been delayed, but I’m still hoping to have a Closing Time update out tonight