Early 2027 Fantasy Baseball Rankings: Top 20 at relief pitcher elevates newcomers like Mason Montgomery

Ranking relievers this time of year is an exercise in futility. The only ones who matter in traditional Fantasy leagues are the ones who get saves, and we can only guess as to who those will be right now.

I'm pretty confident in 16 of my guesses — the first 16 mentioned here — but not necessarily in who they'll be getting saves for. Two of them, David Bednar and Raisel Iglesias, are free agents. Their impending departures would open up opportunities for others, such as Robert Suarez in Atlanta, but we also have to entertain the possibility of them staying put. Or they could sign with a team that already has a presumed closer, reducing two potential save sources to one. And don't get me started on trades.

More than at any of the other positions, then, you'll want to take these rankings with a grain of salt. They're just a first concept of what the relief pitcher landscape could look like, and they may present a bleaker picture than the final one since more save sources will be known by the time we're drafting for real.

I'll add that two of these pitchers, Grant Taylor and Ian Seymour…

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