Fantasy Baseball Closer Report: Lucas Erceg steps up for Royals, Paul Sewald secures closer role in Arizona
Jorge Montanez breaks down the last week in saves from around the league with updated closer rankings.
Welcome back to the Fantasy Baseball Closer Report. The first week of baseball provided us with some early saves targets to go after, including Lucas Erceg, Jordan Romano, and Paul Sewald. Other ambiguous situations, like the Rangers and Rays, gave us more questions than answers.
We'll break it all down as we run through my weekly closer rankings and end with some middle relievers making an early impression. ⚾️ Baseball is back! MLB returns to NBC and Peacock in 2026 !
In addition to becoming the exclusive home of Sunday Night Baseball, NBC Sports will broadcast MLB Sunday Leadoff, “Opening Day” and Labor Day primetime games, the first round of the MLB Draft, the entire Wild Card round of the postseason, and much more. 2026 Fantasy Baseball Closer Rankings ▶ Tier 1 Mason Miller - San Diego Padres Edwin Díaz - Los Angeles Dodgers Cade Smith - Cleveland Guardians Andrés Muñoz - Seattle Mariners Jhoan Duran - Philadelphia Phillies There's not much movement in the top two tiers as it's far too early to overreact to anything. Miller worked around a walk while striking out two batters to earn his first save against the Tigers on Saturday.
He then recorded the final out of the eighth against the Giants on Wednesday and finished out the game with three strikeouts for a four-out save. That's five strikeouts to one hit and one walk over 2 1/3. Díaz struck out two and worked around a walk for his first save as a Dodger on Friday against the Diamondbacks, then converted his second on Saturday with a clean frame.
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