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Burke and the value of middle relief

By Jason Grey
ESPN.com

Sunday, June 21, 2009

As my colleague Eric Karabell noted earlier this week, the value of quality middle relievers is often overlooked by fantasy players. My good friend Todd Zola from mastersball.com once published a study showing the viability of deploying multiple middle relievers effectively in single-league formats. The conventional wisdom held that doing so wasn't a wise play in 5X5 leagues, because you'd be putting yourself behind the eight ball in wins and strikeouts, but Todd showed that as many as three mi ...

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