Emmanuel Clase Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 2" / 206 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 3/18/1998 (26)
- Experience
- 4
- College
- None
Emmanuel Clase Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Emmanuel Clase News
Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase shut the door on the division-rival Minnesota Twins in Friday's win, picking up his 13th save of the year with a clean ninth inning and one strikeout. Jose Ramirez's go-ahead home run in the eighth inning gave the Guardians a 3-2 lead and created a save situation for Clase, who is now tied for MLB's lead with his 13 saves following Friday's performance. The 26-year-old former American League Reliever of the Year has been as dominant as ever in 2024, giving up a lone run and just two walks with 23 strikeouts over 22 1/3 innings as Cleveland's closer. Continue treating Clase as one of fantasy's elite closers, and he's very much in the running to lead baseball in saves for a third consecutive year at this pace.
Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase recorded his ninth save of the season on Wednesday in a 3-2 victory over the Astros. With the Guardians up one run in the tenth inning and a runner on second to begin the inning, Clase needed just five pitches to end the game. The righty struck out the first batter he saw on four pitches, then got the Astros' Mauricio Dubon to line out on one pitch with Victor Caratini getting doubled off at second base to end the game. The 26-year-old now sports a superb 0.55 ERA on the season with a 0.80 WHIP and a 25.4% K-BB% to go along with his nine saves. After posting 40-plus saves in each of the past two seasons with solid ERA and WHIP numbers, Clase appears poised to do it all over again this season.
Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase picked up his eighth save of the year after firing a perfect ninth inning during Thursday's 6-4 win over the Boston Red Sox. Clase entered the game with the top of the Red Sox order due up, but quickly sat them down after 12 pitches. The 26-year-old is enjoying a phenomenal start to the season, as evidenced by his 0.69 ERA, 0.85 WHIP and 14/1 K/BB. Clase struggled a bit last season, but he is back to being one of the top closers in baseball. Fantasy managers can expect him to finish the year near the top of the saves leaderboard.
Batting Order
1 | Tyler Freeman |
2 | Andrés Giménez |
3 | José Ramírez |
4 | Josh Naylor |
5 | David Fry |
6 | Will Brennan |
7 | Ramón Laureano |
8 | Bo Naylor |
9 | Gabriel Arias |
Emmanuel Clase Stats
Last 10 Games
Batting Order
1 | Tyler Freeman |
2 | Andrés Giménez |
3 | José Ramírez |
4 | Josh Naylor |
5 | David Fry |
6 | Will Brennan |
7 | Ramón Laureano |
8 | Bo Naylor |
9 | Gabriel Arias |
Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase was dealt arguably the most favorable hand of all relief pitchers in 2023, riding the wave of an MLB-high 81 save opportunities presented by his team. For the second consecutive season, Clase led the major leagues in saves by converting 44 of his 47 chances. The extreme volume wasn't all good for Clase, however, blowing an MLB-worst 12 saves. The hard-throwing Dominican right-hander also followed up an amazing 2022, which saw him take home the AL Reliever of the Year Award on a 1.36 ERA and 0.73 WHIP, with a strong but lesser 3.22 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, and 64:16 K:BB over 72 2/3 innings. It was always going to be an uphill battle for Clase to mirror his 2022 dominance, but on top of his ERA taking a significant tumble, his 21.2% strikeout rate also paled in comparison to his prior 28.4% clip. With the two-time All-Star's cutter-slider combination only yielding average swing-and-miss stuff, Clase enters 2024 appearing far more reliant on limiting traffic on the bases (5.3% walk rate) as well as his infield defense (56.6% ground-ball rate). The Guardians traded for Scott Barlow, who has closing experience, from the San Diego Padres in November to add some bullpen competition, but Clase is surely getting first dibs on ninth-inning work in Cleveland to start the campaign. Clase is a consensus top-three reliever off fantasy draft boards alongside Devin Williams and Josh Hader and a threat to three-peat as the big-league saves leader, but his noticeable fall-off from one year to the next probably means managers should wait until the top 50 picks have passed before spending one on him.