Key Stats: This is probably the easiest player to write about every year. I could just same what I said last year. Or the year before. Or the year before that. It just doesn’t change with Mariano Rivera. He doesn’t age.
He’s had 9 straight seasons with at least 30 saves and since turning 40 he’s saved 77 games. His WHIP has been below 1.13 for 14 straight seasons and since turning 40 his WHIP has not been above 0.90. He had 7.5 strikeouts for every one walk last year. Skeptics Say: I’d love to say age is going to catch up with him, but it won’t. We will tell stories to our grandkids about him and they’ll tell us to be quiet because they want to listen to the broadcasters analyze his cutter for the billionth time as he’s closing it out as an eighty-year-old. Seriously his ERA has been below 2.00 for four straight years. This is as safe a 42-year-old pick as we may ever see again (unless steroids make a comeback).
Peer Comparison: Rivera is the number nine reliever, but reall...
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