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RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast

2026 Closer Preview with Rick Graham

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4.6784 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Erik Halterman is joined by Rick Graham of PitcherList as they try to figure out how many true, trustworthy closers there will be in 2026.

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0:00.0

How many true trustworthy closers will there be on opening day?

0:06.3

How many true shaky closers will there be on opening day?

0:09.3

How many true committees will we have?

0:11.7

I've got Rick Graham, the editor-in-chief and senior relief pitcher analyst at pitcher list here to help me answer all those questions and more on the RotoWire fantasy baseball podcast.

0:26.8

Hello and welcome everybody to the RotoWire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by

0:33.3

fan tracks. Eric Hulterman here, excited to be joined by my Tout Wars NL co-competitor and a relief pitcher expert

0:42.7

Rick Graham of pitcher list. Rick, have you figured out every single bullpen situation? I hope so,

0:49.3

because that's what we'll be talking about for the bulk of today's show. i think we're we're down to the point where

0:55.1

it's probably about eight to ten that we're still wondering about which is a lot see that's like

1:00.3

you know a third of the league but um yeah it's it's you know sometimes you just don't get

1:05.5

the answer and how things will shake out until opening day but that's yeah we're here to try to

1:09.6

figure out you know read the tea leaves

1:11.1

and sort through all that mess.

1:13.3

Yeah, I think that most of what we were going to learn during spring training has been

1:18.0

learned.

1:18.5

Hopefully we get one or two bits of official confirmation over the next couple days.

1:22.5

But maybe we'll see an Emilio Pagan situation like we saw last year. Somebody nobody was really talking about.

1:29.1

I was looking back at last year's Tout Wars NL auction,

1:32.3

and we took five different relievers, none of which were Pagan.

1:36.1

So sometimes the sixth guy jumps in out of nowhere on the opening weekend.

1:40.9

So, of course, everything we say here today is pending.

1:45.2

The results of the first actual games, but we'll get to all that reliever talk later in the show. Before that, we'll do a little

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