2010 Fantasy Baseball Rankings - Closers

This is the ninth report in the series of our 20106) Francisco Rodriguez
fantasy baseball rankings looking at the closers.7) Andrew Bailey
This is the most unstable position on your fantasy8.) Heath Bell
baseball team even though it has the smallest9) Jose Valverde
category impact when compared to other spots10) Huston Street
on your roster.11) Brian Wilson
Every season there are usually 10 or more relief12) Francisco Cordero
pitchers that did not start the season at closer13) Billy Wagner
that end up getting some saves. That means that14) Rafael Soriano
roughly 33% or more of major league baseball15) Brian Fuentes
teams are going to have closer problems at some16) Trevor Hoffman
point. This makes the upper echelon of closers17) Frank Francisco
much more valuable for their consistency and18) Mike Gonzalez
dependability. It also means once the top tier of19) Chad Qualls
closers are off the draft board, you don't need to20) David Aardsma
panic and chase saves because there is a very21) Carlos Marmol
good possibility that several closers from the22) Bobby Jenks
middle to low tiers are going to lose their job.23) Ryan Franklin
History has shown us that you are going to be24) Kerry Wood
able to get extra saves at some point during the25) Brad Lidge
season via free agency.26) Matt Capps
Here is a look at the top 30 closers as we head27) Leo Nunez
into the 2010 season.The following teams have several players that will
1) Jonathan Broxtonbe fighting for the closer position once spring
2) Joe Nathantraining starts. The current favorite to lead the
3) Jonathan Papelbonteam in saves is listed first in the order of players
4) Mariano Riveraby team.
5) Joakim Soria