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Fantasy baseball stock watch: Closer carousel starts turning early

With Kirby Yates no longer in the mix, Jordan Romano's fantasy value just took a huge leap forward. Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports

The 2021 season got a head start on its annually anticipated closer turnover, with as many as six bullpens seeing a change from their start-of-spring projected closers over the past week. If you play in a league that separates the player pool into single league (AL or NL) universes, the impact was especially dramatic in AL-only leagues, where three of the 15 teams had their ninth-inning decisions impacted by injuries. Not that it's uncommon at this time of year, but the RP position saw the most ranking/ADP (Average Draft Position) changes during the March 19-26 week -- and many of them were dramatic shifts.