The 2025 Closer Pool

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss the first full week of Spring Training and then take a complete look at the 2025 Closer Pool, breaking down every tier, every team and everything you need to solve the saves riddle in your league. Follow us on Twitter / X: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire. NFBC RotoWire Online Championship The NFBC RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Online Championship is Live! Play fantasy baseball against your favorite RotoWire experts on NFBC this baseball season. Jeff Erickson, James Anderson, Clay Link and more will compete in the RotoWire NFBC Online Championship for a shot at $150,000! Sign up today! Fantrax Sign up for Fantrax FREE today and you’ll be entered to win an Official MLB signed jersey from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Simply visit this link to sign up today. https://www.fantrax.com/rotowire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is Sunday night. We are not talking to Oscars. We're talking fantasy baseball.
0:04.4	Tonight we're going to be doing the 2025 closer pool. All coming up next in the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast.
0:23.5	Happy Sunday evening, and me.
0:26.6	Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, sponsored by fan tracks.
0:27.5	We appreciate them for that.
0:28.6	I am Scott Jansett.
0:30.8	Join us always on Sunday nights by Jeff Erickson.
0:32.5	You can please rate with you the podcast.
0:33.3	It helps us out a lot.
0:34.6	We helps you find the podcast.
0:37.1	Always a really good thing for us doing this.
0:54.4	Jeff, it's March. We're talking baseball. It's a good thing right there. Absolutely. You know, we got spring training games now to analyze. We've got two early games coming up in like a little more than two weeks. Yeah, I saw like a thing on Twitter today. It was like 17 days. I was like, oh my gosh. That's too soon.
0:54.7	Yeah.
0:52.0	Too soon. But, you know what? It's going to be, it's going to, it's hitting us pretty fast. You know, I got another draft tomorrow in L only home league. You know, it's like all these emails are coming through. It's lightning fast right now. Yeah, it is. I need to catch out with all you guys,
0:53.1	but I'm trying to do my best.
0:54.3	We're going to talk closers tonight.
1:31.2	Help me a lot to prep for the spot i kind of did all my closet from all my closer research and in one fell swooper so it should be fun to jump into that but like you mentioned we do have some spring training games going on so talk a little bit of news and notes here at the top um one of the bigger stories over the weekend, Luis Heel, Yankees, rookie of the year, some shoulder tightness having an MRI, not exactly what you want coming into early March.
1:36.4	No, not at all. And especially when the quote from Boone is, looks like he's going to miss some time.
1:43.1	Yeah, we don't know how much time, but it's enough
1:46.0	that I'm, I was, I downgraded his projection time wise a little bit there. You know,
1:51.6	he has a history of not being super durable. He pushed hard. He throws really hard. Yep.
1:57.6	And we, we see this. Throws very hard equals more success, but also equals more likely to get hurt.
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