Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 22 (2025)

Plenty of injuries, ineffectiveness, and interesting bullpen moves this week, as usual in Major League Baseball. Also, a five-save week for a guy we all wrote off earlier this year! The more we start hearing about football season, the more we know baseball playoffs are coming up. This week, we learned more about old injuries, […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 21 (2025)

Compared to the wild trade deadline week and the one that followed, this past week was a much quieter week in the bullpens across the league. Some big news out of one bullpen, but comparatively not a whole lot is going on in most others. A nice change! Still, there's always something, and this week that […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 20 (2025)

After a week-long cooling-off period, yeah, that was still a wild trade deadline. Things we all assumed were obvious were ultimately just wrong. Things we never would have guessed would happen actually happened, and that's just in bullpens! It was an exciting and eventful week, even after all the trades were completed. We saw new closers emerge […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 19 (2025)

Every year, everyone says something like, "That was a wild trade deadline," but like...that was a wild trade deadline, right? As always, new closers are joining new teams, and old setup guys are also becoming closers. There's a lot to look at and maybe (hopefully) a lot of fantasy value suddenly on the waiver wire, […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 18 (2025)

Trade Deadline Week is almost here! Always the busiest week of baseball transactions, and always huge changes in many bullpens. But already, on this pre-deadline week, we have tons of bullpen news to cover. New injuries, a DFA, and maybe finally some clarity on a committee? More trade rumors, some injury recovery, and 21 games […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 17 (2025)

With a very polarizing All-Star Game and a predictable but still kind of strange Home Run Derby behind us, the next official baseball holiday will be the trade deadline on July 31. As always, the deadline is sure to turn some bullpens on their heads, but at least for now, we can pretend we have […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 16 (2025)

It's all happening, folks! The All-Star break is almost here, and we had our first (somewhat) relevant reliever trade. Plenty of other things are going on in the league's bullpens this week as well. A team lost their third closer of the year to injury right when he was settling in. Another team continues to […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 15 (2025)

The official first day of summer was in June, but we all know that the real sign that it's summer is the Fourth of July, with the MLB All-Star Game looming shortly after. We are well into the baseball season, and the contenders and pretenders are starting to see a lot of space between each other. […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 14 (2025)

Summer is summer-ing all around the country, and that means that baseball sure is baseball-ing as well. The first round of All-Star voting is now closed, and although it doesn't directly relate to closers, it reminds us that we're well into the season and sample sizes are no longer small. This week, we got a […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 13 (2025)

We're almost at the 2025 season's halfway point, folks. By this time next week, some teams will have played 81 games. We're starting to see clear competitors, clear bottom dwellers, deadline buyers, and deadline sellers. Significant bullpen changes are coming as that trade deadline gets closer and closer, but even this regular ol' week had […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 12 (2025)

All-Star voting has started, and that's how we know we're getting deep (enough) into baseball season. Small sample sizes aren't so small anymore. Rough stretches aren't just stretches anymore. Record-setting paces are starting to become significant now. Injuries, of course, always remain a key factor in baseball, real life, and fantasy. This week, a guy […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 11 (2025)

School's out for summer (in most places, I still have another week of teaching before sweet freedom), and baseball season is completely, totally, and thoroughly in full swing. Big bullpen news this week with injuries falling upon one of baseball's best, and confusion and almost predictable chaos around the rest of the league. A formerly […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 10 (2025)

It's almost June, folks! We're past Memorial Day and (un)officially into the summer of 2025. Baseball still rules even if so many other things don't right now, even if there are still Major League Baseball teams with single-digit wins. We're possibly a Mariners or Padres win away from the league leader in saves having twice […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 9 (2025)

Injuries, recoveries, saves, blown saves...suspensions! It was another predictably unpredictable week in the bullpens of Major League Baseball. The deeper we get into the baseball season, the more things seem to make sense in some bullpens while others go completely awry. Is there a new closer in Chicago? Is there finally a change in Texas? […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 8 (2025)

Another eventful and fun baseball week is in the rear-view mirror, and the bullpen chaos continues unfettered and seemingly knows no bounds. This week we have saves, blown saves, epic bat flips on the other side of blown saves, injuries, and more. One team's closer got hurt, and their backup closer? Also hurt. Another team's […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 7 (2025)

We're suddenly approaching mid-May, and while some bullpens have been expectedly mid this season, others we thought would be elite have been mid as well. We have struggling guys suddenly improving, and improving guys suddenly struggling again. This week, two veteran closers combined to get two guys out and allow 14 runs. Another guy who […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 6 (2025)

Somehow, and it seems like no one really knows how, but we've made it to May. The whole first month of the 2025 baseball season is behind us, and while a few bullpens are getting more and more confusing, others are finally settling into something that maybe makes sense. We have some serious fantasy baseball […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 5 (2025)

It's an interesting part of baseball season: Spring break is over, and we're almost a month in, but "on pace for" stats are still pretty fun to play around with. Injuries are striking bullpens, rotations, and lineups around the league, and guys we've always trusted and relied on are suddenly untrustworthy and unreliable. Bullpen shakeups […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 3 (2025)

Another week in the books, and even more information and examples for us to look at in the bullpen world. Roles are solidifying, struggles are rearing their heads, and guys we'd never heard of before the season started are suddenly true fantasy assets. Entering Week 3, we're past the weird scheduling to start the season […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 2 (2025)

Baseball is back, and the games count again, and everything is great. (Don't fact-check this. Don't watch the news to prove me wrong.) There have been some exciting starts to the season mixed in with some unexpectedly and surprisingly bad ones. Saves, holds, and blown saves are coming from some expected pitchers and thoroughly unexpected […]

Closers and Saves Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire Report for Week 1 (2025)

It feels like "we're so back" has run its course as a thing that people say without other people rolling their eyes, so let's say that definitely wasn't the plan for the start of this article. But baseball season is back and that means fantasy baseball is back and that means RotoBaller's Closers and Saves Report is […]

Chargers Defense Coughs Up 450 Yards In Playoff Loss

The Los Angeles Chargers defense allowed 450 yards to the Houston Texans in a Wild-Card round loss on Saturday. The Bolts got off to a great start before crumbling in the second half. In total, they allowed 282 passing yards and 168 rushing yards. They did get one interception and one fumble recovery, and sacked […]

Cameron Dicker Makes Two Field Goals In A Wild-Card Loss

Los Angeles Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker made two field goals in a disappointing Wild Card loss to the Houston Texans. Dicker attempted two field goals and made them both, one from 35 yards and the other from 39 yards out. His one attempt at an extra point was blocked, scooped, and returned for a two-point […]

Quentin Johnston Does Nothing Positive In The Wild-Card Round

Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Quentin Johnston did nothing right in a Wild Card loss to the Houston Texans. Johnston was targeted five times and made no catches, the second game this season where he saw that many targets but still couldn't do anything with them. The play that encapsulated the NFL career of "QJ" […]

Will Dissly Struggles Through The Chargers' Wild-Card Loss

Los Angeles Chargers tight end Will Dissly struggled his way through a rough loss in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs against the Houston Texans. Dissly was targeted five times, making two catches for 16 yards total. He dropped a pass while completely wide open and also was unable to catch a rather easy […]

Ladd McConkey Has A Strong End To His Rookie Year

Los Angeles Chargers rookie wide receiver Ladd McConkey was the lone bright spot of the Chargers' Wild-Card round loss to the Houston Texans on Saturday. McConkey was targeted 14 times, making nine catches for 197 yards and a touchdown. The rookie's touchdown was an 86-yard play and the only one the Bolts would score in […]

Gus Edwards Runs Seven Times In Wild-Card Loss

Los Angeles Chargers running back Gus Edwards ran the ball seven times in a Wild Card Round loss to the Houston Texans. Edwards was not targeted in the passing game and turned his seven rushes into 22 yards. He looked out of gas most of the season, but was still solid enough as a backup […]

J.K. Dobbins Finds No Room To Run In The Wild-Card Round

Los Angeles Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins struggled in the Wild Card Round loss to the Houston Texans, along with almost everyone else in a Chargers uniform. Dobbins ran the ball nine times, gaining 26 yards. He was targeted once in the passing game but was unable to come up with the catch. Dobbins was […]

Justin Herbert Has The Worst Game Of His Career On Saturday

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert had the worst game of his career at a very inopportune time, losing 32-12 to the Texans in the first round of the playoffs. Herbert attempted 32 passes, completing just 14 for 242 yards, one touchdown, and four interceptions. He was also sacked four times, losing 31 yards. Herbert […]

Chargers Defense A Solid Bet In Wild-Card Round

The Los Angeles Chargers defense is a solid bet for playoff fantasy lineups in the Wild Card Weekend against the Houston Texans. The Bolts defense was strong all year, finishing at the top of the chart for fewest points allowed. Fantasy-wise, they wrapped up the season with a few up-and-down performances, but still ended up […]