It surprised everyone a little bit last season when the San Diego Padres traded for Mason Miller and didn’t make him their closer.<\/p>\n
But they had Robert Suarez in that role, and they kept him there, so the flamethrowing Miller became an overqualified setup guy.<\/p>\n
This season, things look different.<\/p>\n
The awesome resource Closer Monkey<\/a> has depth charts for that role with every team in MLB, and it serves as a good reminder with Opening Day approaching.<\/p>\n This season, Miller will be the Padres’ closer for as long as he is healthy. There is no real competition for him anymore.<\/p>\n That’s because Suarez signed a three-year deal in free agency with the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n Most odd about the whole chart on Closer Monkey, though, is that Suarez isn’t projected to be the Atlanta closer.<\/p>\n The website projects Raisel Iglesias to close for the Braves, with Suarez as his setup man.<\/p>\n Iglesias is aging, so he likely will move out of the way soon enough. It would be a bit surprising, though, to see the Braves give Suarez a $45 million total contract only to have him be the setup guy.<\/p>\n Regardless, Miller is surely happy. After showing his ability for Team USA at the World Baseball Classic, he’ll now get a chance to do it for the Padres.<\/p>\n He was a star closer for the Athletics, and with Suarez out of the way, it’s Miller time in San Diego.<\/p>\n FANTASY BASEBALL RANKINGS:\u00a0First base<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Second base<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Shortstop<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Third base<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Catcher<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It surprised everyone a little bit last season when the San Diego Padres traded for Mason Miller and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-554433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}