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One of the hardest positions to pinpoint fantasy value for each season is a relief pitcher. You have your handful of dominant closers who are fantasy staples, but the remainder of fantasy value usually comes from surprise players who step into the closer role or are starters with reliever eligibility. [...]

Once you reach the later rounds of drafts, you start thinking about upside fliers that can provide a great return on value. These are the rounds to take risks on more unknown commodities like prospects, forgotten-about veterans, players returning from injuries or players that have previously showed promise but haven't put it all together yet. Knowing about the deeper player pool can help you be more flexible throughout the draft, especially if you can identify someone you like and plan your earl[...]

Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Shane Greene will look to build on his 32 saves from last season while trying to lower his unsightly 5.12 ERA. Greene has already been handed the ninth inning by manager Ron Gardenhire, but he'll need to pitch better than he did last year if he wants to keep his job, especially with Joe Jimenez in the bullpen with him. Greene had some solid numbers besides the 32 saves last season, striking out 65 while walking just 19 in 63 1/3 innings of work. He'll need to limit [...]

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There is no such thing as a can't-miss pitching prospect. Pitchers never stay healthy. Relievers are volatile. All of these are sayings that diehard fantasy baseball players are familiar with, and to some extent, live by during the fantasy season. Developing a pitching strategy is hard enough with access to the waiver wire, but in draft-and-holds, with set season-long rosters, the difficulty is ratcheted up even more.One thing that owners know for sure regarding pitching is that injuries will ha[...]

Moving right along with our pre-season coverage of the bullpens around the league, let's give the American League Central a look. Most "baseball people" are predicting the AL Central to be one of the worst divisions in the league in 2019, but that doesn't mean there won't be plenty of fantasy value coming out of the bullpens.[...]

Its never too early to start looking toward the fantasy baseball season, and Im here to continue RotoBallers position-by-position rankings analysis series for points league and head-to-head (H2H) formats with the ever-volatile relief pitcher position. The "closer carousel" seems to spin faster and faster every year, and there are very few names in the 'set it and forget it' category. [...]

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