Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm your host James Anderson, and I've got

RotoWire's resident relief pitching expert Ryan Roof with me today. We're going to be talking

about Ryan's closer rankings, which just went up on RotoWire.com, rotowire.com slash pod

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out Ryan's relief pitcher rankings, closer encounters article that he's got up on the site.

Ryan, great to have you. Happy to talk closures with you today. How are you doing, man?

Doing good, man. It's been a long time. Thanks for having me on. It's been a while since I've done one of these, so I'm excited to get back on the mic,

talk some baseball.

Absolutely.

Really pumped and waited as long as I felt like we could in the offseason.

I've been wanting to talk with you for a while, but wanted some of those relievers to sign.

Obviously, they haven an all signed we'll talk about the guys who are still free agents as we as we go here but

i want to start at the very top of your closer rankings um you kind of have a tier of four guys up

here we'll start with josh hater uh with the astros Obviously, Brian Presley no longer there. Brian

of Brayu would seem to have a clear next fan up role here. But any concerns at all with Haders?

He just about as safe as it gets at the top. Yeah, I think he's probably the safest as it gets

for me. That's why I have him ranked number one.

I think, you know, the usage rules he had with Milwaukee or kind of in San Diego

are kind of long gone.

He kind of lifted those last year after signing the long-term deal with Houston.

So career high in appearances last season.

He's pitching multi-inning games now.

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