Fantasy Baseball Pickups: Daniel Palencia's Role as Cubs' Closer

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00:00so let's attack the waiver wire here and first and foremost for those that are chasing saves

00:04he's 63 percent rostered but there's a chance that daniel palencia of the chicago cubs is available

00:10the cubs are three teams at 40 or more wins he's a closer for a team with a four-game lead in the

00:16national league central george any reason why i understand there's a committee there for a minute

00:20in the cub bullpen but now it's clearly palencia's job why wouldn't he be 99 percent rostered

00:26well you're gonna see that number go climb and grow and grow i think you already said it here

00:30it was a committee here so people just catch it up now that right now uh palencia is the guy i am not

00:35guaranteeing that he's gonna be the guy all year long you know for those who remember back in the

00:39day we did uh more writing uh here i wrote the the closer report for us right uh and i wrote it for i

00:46don't know a decade whatever it might be and my first column in march every uh every year would

00:51be the same as i just really copy and paste it i'm gonna list 30 closes here by july 4th half of

00:57them won't have the job all right it's just the way closes is and we're already at june 8th and

01:01listen i imagine it's more than half right now it's just the way the job is the most volatile

01:05job there is maybe a professional sports here you blow one save fans are unhappy two saves now the

01:12media is going after you three saves now ownership is going bananas you're right and you're out it's

01:17really just the way it works here keep in mind if palencia struggles at all here i think

01:21presley might get another shot i also think this is where the cubs might spend at the deadline

01:26looking for that closer all right so uh that's what that's my biggest worry here i think he's

01:32the he's the job now next week i like it after that i guarantee nothing all right so we'll see

01:37if it goes away here but yes he should be higher uh higher roster than he is right now