Emmanuel Clase suffered a rocky American League Championship Sequence final October.
The reduction pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians surrendered 4 runs in simply 2.1 innings of labor. He was saddled with the loss in Sport 4, setting the stage for the New York Yankees to clinch the pennant the next day.
Overlook that, if you happen to can. Clase’s whole physique of labor has been excellent, establishing him as baseball’s finest righthanded reliever.
My rankings embody all righties who made not less than 150 reduction appearances between 2020 and 2024. They’re sorted based on total base worth (OBV), which compares a given pitcher’s efficiency with the big-league common.
Clase labored 289.1 regular-season innings for Cleveland over the five-year span. He allowed opposing batters to succeed in 351 bases by hits, walks, hit batters, stolen bases, and sacrifices. A typical pitcher with the identical workload would have yielded 610 bases.
Clase’s whole was 259 bases higher than common, giving him an OBV of plus-259. No different righty bullpen specialist got here inside 95 bases of that whole.
The Cleveland reliever additionally topped this class in two conventional measures of pitching excellence. He amassed the bottom earned run common (1.62) and most saves (157) of any righthanded reliever.
The runners-up in OBV had been Raisel Iglesias at plus-162 and Devin Williams at plus-147. Iglesias pitched for the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels, and Atlanta Braves through the 2020-2024 interval. Williams labored solely for the Milwaukee Brewers, although he was not too long ago traded to the Yankees.
Scroll all the way down to see the the half-decade’s prime 10 righthanded reduction pitchers. Every is adopted by parenthetical stats for 2020-2024 — innings pitched, saves, and earned run common — capped by his total base worth.
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1. Emmanuel Clase (IP 289.1, SV 157, ERA 1.62) — OBV +259
2. Raisel Iglesias (IP 280.0, SV 126, ERA 2.44) — OBV +162
3. Devin Williams (IP 222.0, SV 68, ERA 1.70) — OBV +147
4. Clay Holmes (IP 261.0, SV 74, ERA 3.03) — OBV +120
5. Ryan Helsley (IP 227.0, SV 84, ERA 2.58) — OBV +119
6. Ryan Pressly (IP 255.1, SV 106, ERA 3.10) — OBV +116
7. Evan Phillips (IP 206.2, SV 45, ERA 2.48) — OBV +115
8. Tyler Rogers (IP 329.0, SV 19, ERA 3.04) — OBV +108
9. Brusdar Graterol (IP 181.0, SV 11, ERA 2.69) — OBV +99
10. Dylan Floro (IP 267.1, SV 32, ERA 3.50) — OBV +91
10. Chris Martin (IP 213.0, SV 9, ERA 2.66) — OBV +91
