It seems our closers get ranked in bunches, huh? We ranked four closers from 190-196, and two times since then we’ve ranked two closers back to back. Well, make that three times. Drew Storen, our 96th-ranked player, and Mariano Rivera, number 95, are a fascinating pairing. While Storen brings youthfulness and potential, Rivera brings experience and dependability. Because of age, Rivera probably won’t be among the league leaders in innings pitched in 2012, but he’s saved 44 games in two of the last three seasons and has saved fewer than 34 just once in the last nine years (30 back in 2007). However, despite the age, no one brings a consistently low WHIP quite like the Yankee veteran. His cutter is devastating, and he controls it impeccably. While it’s almost always smart to wait on closers until late in your draft, how many times have you seen your team’s ERA balloon because one of your closers gave up four runs in a third of an inning? You don’t h...
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