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2025 Fantasy Baseball Closer, Relief Pitcher Rankings: Top 130 - Roto Leagues (January Updates)

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Welcome back! At RotoBaller HQ, we continue our rankings articles series and pump out fantasy baseball content daily. Today, our MLB team bring your our early 2025 fantasy baseball closer and relief pitcher rankings and tiers for 5x5 mixed roto leagues. Should you spend a high pick on a closer? Saves can be scarce and volatile at times, but the good news is that we saw 22 relief pitchers convert 20 or more saves.

Ryan Helsley led the majors with 49 saves, followed by Emmanuel Clase with 47. The biggest news for closers during the offseason was Devin Williams being acquired by the New York Yankees. Williams was named the team's closer after signing a one-year, $8.6 million contract with New York to avoid arbitration. In other news, the Cubs traded for Ryan Pressly this offseason, while the Dodgers signed closer Tanner Scott. Use our relief pitcher rankings below during your drafts and check out our MLB closers and saves depth charts, updated throughout the season.

The closer and relief pitcher rankings below are specifically designed for traditional 5x5 Roto Mixed Leagues (click here for points leagues, dynasty leagues, and prospect rankings). We also have many other tools and resources to help you win in 2025. We've worked hard to keep track of all off-season moves to get you covered for your fantasy baseball drafts with our 2025 Fantasy Baseball Draft Kit. It includes various fantasy baseball tools and exclusive articles/projections for different formats.

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2025 Fantasy Baseball Closer and Relief Pitcher Rankings (January Update)

Rankings by Nick Mariano. They are for 5x5 category mixed roto leagues and will be updated regularly on our main fantasy baseball rankings dashboard through Opening Day. Download our free mobile app with push notification alerts and stay on top of all the MLB news and analysis.

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1 1 Emmanuel Clase RP
2 1 Edwin Diaz RP
3 2 Devin Williams RP
4 2 Josh Hader RP
5 2 Mason Miller RP
6 2 Ryan Helsley RP
7 2 Felix Bautista RP
8 2 Raisel Iglesias RP
9 3 Andres Munoz RP
10 3 Jhoan Duran RP
11 4 Ryan Walker RP
12 4 Robert Suarez RP
13 4 Trevor Megill RP
14 4 Jeff Hoffman RP
15 4 Alexis Diaz RP
16 5 Carlos Estevez RP
17 5 Ryan Pressly RP
18 5 Ben Joyce RP
19 5 Bowden Francis SP/RP
20 5 Pete Fairbanks RP
21 5 Tanner Scott RP
22 5 David Bednar RP
23 5 Jordan Romano RP
24 5 Drew Rasmussen SP/RP
25 5 Kirby Yates RP
26 6 Lucas Erceg RP
27 6 A.J. Puk RP
28 6 Justin Martinez RP
29 6 Chris Martin RP
30 6 Liam Hendriks RP
31 6 Kenley Jansen RP
32 6 Griffin Jax RP
33 6 Edwin Uceta RP
34 6 Luke Weaver RP
35 6 Clay Holmes SP/RP
36 6 Orion Kerkering RP
37 6 Aroldis Chapman RP
38 7 Porter Hodge RP
39 7 Blake Treinen RP
40 7 Nick Martinez SP/RP
41 7 Jose Soriano RP
42 7 Jason Foley RP
43 7 Grant Holmes SP/RP
44 7 Jorge Lopez RP
45 7 Bryan Abreu RP
46 7 Cade Smith RP
47 7 Jason Adam RP
48 7 Michael Kopech RP
49 7 Ben Brown SP/RP
50 7 Tyler Holton SP/RP
51 8 Matt Strahm RP
52 8 Camilo Doval RP
53 8 Kevin Ginkel RP
54 8 Evan Phillips RP
55 8 Seth Halvorsen RP
56 8 David Robertson RP
57 8 Jeremiah Estrada RP
58 8 Robert Garcia RP
59 8 Calvin Faucher RP
60 8 Jesus Tinoco RP
61 8 Justin Slaten RP
62 8 Chad Green RP
63 8 Hayden Wesneski SP/RP
64 8 Yimi Garcia RP
65 8 Paul Sewald RP
66 8 Prelander Berroa RP
67 8 Beau Brieske RP
68 8 A.J. Minter RP
69 8 Brant Hurter RP
70 8 Andrew Kittredge RP
71 8 Tony Santillan RP
72 8 Hunter Gaddis RP
73 8 Joel Payamps RP
74 8 Jose Leclerc RP
75 8 Kyle Finnegan RP
76 8 Aaron Ashby RP
77 8 Jordan Hicks RP
78 8 Mason Montgomery RP
79 8 Derek Law RP
80 8 Jose Butto SP/RP
81 9 Jose Alvarado RP
82 9 Jose A. Ferrer RP
83 9 Keegan Akin RP
84 9 Dylan Lee RP
85 9 Andre Pallante SP/RP
86 9 Will Vest RP
87 9 Bryan Hudson RP
88 9 Dedniel Nunez RP
89 9 Hunter Harvey RP
90 9 Cole Sands RP
91 9 Jared Koenig SP/RP
92 9 Alex Vesia RP
93 9 Seranthony Dominguez RP
94 9 Kevin Kelly RP
95 9 JoJo Romero RP
96 9 Pierce Johnson RP
97 9 Manuel Rodriguez RP
98 9 Craig Kimbrel RP
99 9 Andrew Nardi RP
100 9 Reed Garrett RP
101 9 Jakob Junis SP/RP
102 9 Gregory Santos RP
103 9 Garrett Cleavinger RP
104 9 Hector Neris RP
105 9 Danny Coulombe RP
106 10 Anthony Bender RP
107 10 Tyson Miller RP
108 10 Brock Stewart RP
109 10 Fernando Cruz RP
110 10 Aaron Bummer RP
111 10 Tim Herrin RP
112 10 Matt Brash RP
113 10 Mark Leiter Jr. RP
114 10 Yuki Matsui RP
115 10 Yennier Cano RP
116 10 Tanner Banks RP
117 10 Steven Matz SP/RP
118 10 Osvaldo Bido SP/RP
119 10 Erik Swanson RP
120 10 Craig Yoho RP
121 10 Ryan Zeferjahn RP
122 10 Tyler Kinley RP
123 10 Abner Uribe RP
124 10 Jorge Alcala RP
125 10 James Karinchak RP
126 11 Erik Miller RP
127 11 Trent Thornton RP
128 11 Michel Otanez RP
129 11 Jacob Webb RP
130 11 Nate Pearson RP
131 11 Nick Sandlin RP
132 11 Danny Young RP
133 11 Ian Hamilton RP


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