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Originally Posted by GTBMuckface
mrbaseball master troll at work guys take notes
Discussing fantasy baseball strategies in the fantasy baseball thread makes me a troll? Go into a roto league and try to trade some typical 6th/7th/8th round hitter for an established closer. Guys like Frazier, Pedroia, Cain, LeMahaeu, Bradley Jr. etc. Nobody will do it for a couple reasons.
All of those guys are easily replaceable but a closer isn't. The guy with the closer probably has just enough or more likely not enough and losing one of this commodity hurts him more than adding one of these middling hitters will bring. And if a guy has a surplus of closers he probably did it so he could deal one for a real prize to some guy who ignored closers and won't just give them away without extracting a lot of value. Plus quality closers will typically help with era/whip and K's making closer inning very valuable.