Ranking Closer Adds! Weekend Waiver Adds! (4/20 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Jhoan Duran and Daniel Palencia both went on the IL this weekend! How do we rank closer options? Dean Kremer is spamming his splitter and looks interesting. Is Dalton Rushing an option in two-catcher leagues?
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| 0:00.0 | Bullpens have been a disaster. Let's talk Waverwire. Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome into FBT Express on Monday, 420. I am Frank Sample, joined by Scott White, and let's talk |
| 0:14.1 | some Waver Wire from the weekend. The closer season from hell continued. We got a bunch of injuries, |
| 0:22.3 | a disaster all around. |
| 0:25.4 | Yohan Duran went on the IL with an oblique strain. |
| 0:29.0 | Daniel Palencia went on the IL, also with an oblique strain. |
| 0:32.4 | Jeff Hoffman served up a grand slam in a tie game. |
| 0:33.9 | He has an ERA over 7. |
| 0:37.2 | Edwin Diaz had another rough outing on Sunday. And the Astros moved Josh Hader to the 60-day IL. |
| 0:42.0 | The earliest we will see him is in late May. |
| 0:44.7 | So lots of save opportunities available here, Scott off the waiver wire. |
| 0:50.0 | How are you ranking the players in these situations? |
| 0:53.6 | So let's say anybody on the Phillies, |
| 0:56.7 | anybody on the Cubs, |
| 0:58.4 | anybody in the Astros, |
| 1:00.4 | anybody on the Blue Jays, |
| 1:02.0 | anybody on the Dodgers, |
| 1:04.1 | who do you like from those teams? |
| 1:07.9 | Well, |
| 1:09.3 | if you don't have to resort to those teams, don't. |
| 1:12.7 | Let me put that out there first. |
| 1:14.8 | But in deeper rotissary leagues, in any leagues where saves are scarce, then these guys |
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