Jon Rauch

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.

ouch, this one really bites as I have Rauch as my closer on a couple of ball clubs.

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.

This sounds like it is just a temporary roster decision to me. Just to get another arm in for the weekend series. Jon Rauch will continue to fill in for Cordero obviously.

As a Jon Rauch owner in a few leagues, I hope Cordero takes his sweet time healing.

This would be a huge blow to many.
Well everybody but us Jon Rauch owners that is :)