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 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.
Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase picked up his seventh save of the season in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Red Sox. Clase came in to pitch the top of the ninth inning up by three and shut things down by striking out the side. The 26-year-old has looked more like his old self this season, converting all but two save opportunities with a 0.75 ERA, a 9.75 K/9 rate, and a 0.75 BB/9 rate. Clase was still a high-end fantasy option in 2023 with slightly less impressive numbers overall, so he can be even more valuable if he reverts to how he performed early in his career.
Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase locked down his fifth save of the season in a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday. Clase was sharp in this one, throwing a perfect inning and striking out one. It was nice to see this kind of outing from Clase, who had blown his last two save opportunities before this one. That said, the 26-year-old has been sharp overall this season, going 5-for-7 in save opportunities while pitching to a 1.00 ERA and 1.00 WHIP. He will remain an elite closer for fantasy purposes.
Batting Order
1 | Steven Kwan |
2 | Andrés Giménez |
3 | José Ramírez |
4 | Josh Naylor |
5 | David Fry |
6 | Will Brennan |
7 | Tyler Freeman |
8 | Bo Naylor |
9 | Brayan Rocchio |
Emmanuel Clase Stats
Last 10 Games
Batting Order
1 | Steven Kwan |
2 | Andrés Giménez |
3 | José Ramírez |
4 | Josh Naylor |
5 | David Fry |
6 | Will Brennan |
7 | Tyler Freeman |
8 | Bo Naylor |
9 | Brayan Rocchio |
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.