Welcome to the RodeWire 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.

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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 off season. I've been wanting to talk with you for a while, but wanted some of those relievers to sign. Obviously, they have an all sign.

We'll talk about the guys who are still free agents as we go here.

But I want to start at the very top of your closer rankings.

You kind of have a tier of four guys up here.

We'll start with Josh Hader with the Astros.

Obviously, Brian Presley no longer there. Brian

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

Is 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.

100-plus strikeouts seem like a lock.

Very little competition for the role.

So I think he's my clear number one for me.

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