I swore I wouldn’t do any offseason closer updates before spring training because relief pitchers can gain or lose too much value with the addition or subtraction of just one player, but I’m fairly confident the Red Sox have the last piece of their closing puzzle in place now as we move towards 2012. For Red Sox fans like me, you have to be thrilled that the team was finally able to acquire Andrew Bailey, especially given recent reports that the Rays were in the mix, but what does this mean from a fantasy perspective?
Right now Bailey will be the team’s closer. They’ve pretty much committed to moving Daniel Bard to the rotation to start spring training and Mark Melancon, while a nice addition to the bullpen, will simply lose out to Bailey.
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That said, how should you value Bailey going forward? He’s still a perennial injury risk, which prevents him from joining the ranks of the elite at his position in fantasy, but Boston is ...
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