Brandon Lyon

And so the two weeks draws to a close, appropriately, with a look at the Top 10 Closers. A volatile position at the best of times, 2008 seemed to be the craziest season ever in terms of the amount of closers losing their jobs through injury or bad performance.

Closers may be the most intriguing breed of baseball players. They are highly debated, analyzed, ridiculed, and speculated on. Their biggest contribution to a fantasy lineup (Saves), they have little control over. They warm up, get ready to pitch, and when their offense scores a run to put their team up 4, they sit down and go back to spitting seeds while a guy, possibly just as capable, making a fraction of what the closer makes, trots out for the 9th inning. If you tried to describe fully, the modern MLB closer to somebody who had never heard of the concept, they'd look at you like you were crazy.

The roles in the Arizona bullpen will not be decided upon by opening day. Their roles will be fluid all season, take it to the bank.
First off relievers see very little action in the spring, and they are just loosening up.
Secondly Qualls is the best of the three right now, and Melvin plans to use him in the seventh. I understand that Pena is the closer of the future, but where is it written that future has to be now. Let him work the 7th and 8th ...