Reliever Rankings: RotoGraphs Consensus

Consensus Ranks: OF, C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, and RP and SP.

Tiered Ranks: C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, NL OF, AL SP, NL SP, Holds.

The main hullabaloo will probably be about the relievers-turned-starters. There’s a bit of a damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don’t thing going on. If you don’t rank the reliever/starters because they won’t be traditional relievers getting saves, then those pitchers will fall out of the player ranking universe for the most part. Most of them don’t have ‘starter’ eligibility. Add to that the difficulty of projecting a dominant reliever into a new role, and, well, you get a difficult situation. So that’s what happened with Matt Moore, Chris Sale, Daniel Bard, Neftali Feliz and Cory Luebke.

As for the traditional relievers, there’s a lot of agreement. Well, Zimmerman thinks the magic will run out for Mariano Rivera this year, Podhorzer hates Heath Bell, half of us thought J.J. Putz would stay healthy and half of us thought he’d crap out again, Zimmerman put Kenley Jansen right into the closer’s role while the rest of us were more cautious, and Carlos Marmol inspired some differing opinions.

The relievers!

Player Name	Eno Sarris	Mike Podhorzer	Jeff Zimmerman	Zach Sanders	Staff Consensus	FantasyPros All Experts
Craig Kimbrel	1	1	1	1	1	view
Jonathan Papelbon	2	5	2	8	2	view
Mariano Rivera	3	3	17	3	3	view
John Axford	7	4	6	9	3	view
Joel Hanrahan	9	8	8	4	4	view
Drew Storen	8	16	9	5	5	view
Ryan Madson	10	6	15	10	6	view
Rafael Betancourt	12	19	4	11	7	view
Heath Bell	11	17	13	6	8	view
Sergio Santos	13	11	10	16	9	view
J.J. Putz	18	7	19	7	10	view
Brian Wilson	16	14	11	17	11	view
Joakim Soria	15	10	12	23	12	view
Carlos Marmol	25	15	3	19	13	view
Cory Luebke	5	9	–	2	14	view
Jason Motte	20	22	16	12	15	view
Jordan Walden	14	23	21	13	16	view
Jose Valverde	21	21	18	15	17	view
Huston Street	19	18	20	18	17	view
Kenley Jansen	22	26	7	24	18	view
Matt Moore	4	2	–	28	19	view
Andrew Bailey	17	12	27	29	19	view
Neftali Feliz	26	34	5	21	20	view
Brandon League	24	25	24	14	21	view
Joe Nathan	23	20	23	31	22	view
Kyle Farnsworth	28	28	25	20	23	view
Chris Sale	6	24	–	27	24	view
Matt Thornton	32	13	14	56	25	view
Jim Johnson	29	31	26	36	26	view
Tyler Clippard	30	50	22	22	27	view
Mike Adams	31	29	38	32	28	view
Vinnie Pestano	38	33	34	26	29	view
Daniel Bard	27	27	–	37	30	view
Addison Reed	33	36	50	25	31	view
Jonny Venters	34	32	47	35	32	view
Grant Balfour	41	38	36	33	32	view
Chris Perez	37	35	29	59	33	view
Sergio Romo	44	46	30	34	34	view
Matt Capps	36	39	33	84	35	view
Frank Francisco	35	30	–	44	36	view
Javy Guerra	40	41	51	42	37	view
Koji Uehara	–	49	37	38	38	view
Sean Marshall	–	47	35	43	39	view
David Robertson	–	48	28	51	40	view
Alfredo Aceves	–	–	32	45	41	view
Fernando Salas	49	–	41	39	42	view
Felipe Paulino	–	–	–	30	43	view
Glen Perkins	–	40	–	41	43	view
Chris Resop	–	–	31	99	44	view
David Hernandez	39	–	44	53	45	view
Francisco Rodriguez	43	–	–	40	45	view
Rex Brothers	48	37	–	–	46	view
Fautino De Los Santos	42	44	–	90	47	view
Greg Holland	46	–	46	48	48	view
Carlos Villanueva	–	–	39	96	49	view
Sam LeCure	–	–	40	75	50	view
Wilton Lopez	–	42	59	79	51	view
Mark Melancon	–	–	42	69	51	view
Brian Fuentes	–	43	52	64	52	view
Joaquin Benoit	–	–	43	52	52	view
Andrew Cashner	45	–	–	50	53	view
David Carpenter	–	45	–	92	54	view
Antonio Bastardo	–	–	45	54	54	view
Aroldis Chapman	–	–	–	46	55	view
Kerry Wood	47	–	–	83	56	view
Matt Belisle	–	–	57	47	56	view
Edward Mujica	–	–	49	49	56	view
Nick Masset	–	–	48	87	57	view
Scott Downs	50	–	–	65	58	view

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