Fantasy Baseball Saves Plus Holds Rankings & Advice (2025)

Each week during the season, I take a look at the reliever landscape to aid with waiver wire and trade decisions. There were 41 pitchers with multiple saves plus holds in the past week.

Fantasy Baseball Saves + Holds League Advice

Saves + Holds Saves Leaders

Here are the top 12 pitchers, all with double-digit saves plus holds through May 7th.

Player	Team	SV+H
Robert Suarez	SDP	14
Kyle Finnegan	WSH	12
Andres Munoz	SEA	12
Lucas Erceg	KCR	12
Tanner Scott	LAD	12
Cade Smith	CLE	11
Jason Adam	SDP	11
Carlos Estevez	KCR	10
Mason Miller	ATH	10
Reed Garrett	NYM	10
Hunter Gaddis	CLE	10
Alex Vesia	LAD	10

Takeaways

Andres Munoz has yet to allow an earned run through 17 innings. According to a quick Google search, he is only seven innings away from tying the longest scoreless inning streak to start a season. He joins Robert Suarez, Lucas Erceg, Jason Adam, Reed Garrett, Hunter Gaddis, Luke Weaver, Tommy Kahnle, Nick Mears, Erik Miller and Justin Sterner with sub-1.00 ERAs. Sterner has gone 18.1 scoreless innings himself for the Athletics in middle relief.
Evan Phillips returned from the injured list (IL) and picked up three saves plus holds. He didn’t allow any runs and picked up six strikeouts in his 5.2 innings pitched. However, he returned to the IL on Wednesday after experiencing forearm discomfort, leaving the opportunities for Tanner Scott, Alex Vesia and Kirby Yates.
Robert Suarez, Andres Munoz, Cade Smith, Jason Adam, Mason Miller, Reed Garrett, Hunter Gaddis and Alex Vesia have a greater than 9.0 K/9. These pitchers have a little more upside than most because of their potential to rack up strikeouts.
Kyle Finnegan is second in the league in saves and saves plus holds. He’s pitched 60+ innings each of the last four seasons and has 28+ saves in the past two. The Nationals aren’t thought to have many winning opportunities, but Finnegan has turned lemons into lemonade over the last couple of seasons.

Saves + Holds Relief Pitcher Rankings

Here are my updated top 40 relief pitchers for saves plus holds leagues.

Rank	Player	Team	Change
1	Andres Munoz	SEA	+2
2	Josh Hader	HOU	-1
3	Mason Miller	ATH	-1
4	Emmanuel Clase	CLE	–
5	Robert Suarez	SDP	–
6	Tanner Scott	LAD	+1
7	Edwin Diaz	NYM	-1
8	Jeff Hoffman	TOR	–
9	Cade Smith	CLE	–
10	Jason Adam	SDP	–
11	Bryan Abreu	HOU	–
12	Luke Weaver	NYY	–
13	Lucas Erceg	KCR	+3
14	Jhoan Duran	MIN	+1
15	Raisel Iglesias	ATL	+2
16	Devin Williams	NYY	-3
17	Ryan Helsley	STL	+1
18	Jose Alvarado	PHI	+1
19	Aroldis Chapman	BOS	+1
20	Kirby Yates	LAD	+4
21	Hunter Gaddis	CLE	+1
22	Kenley Jansen	LAA	-1
23	Carlos Estevez	KCR	+4
24	Griffin Jax	MIN	+4
25	Ryan Walker	SFG	–
26	Jeremiah Estrada	SDP	+3
27	Chris Martin	TEX	-1
28	Porter Hodge	CHC	+3
29	Alex Vesia	LAD	+3
30	Kyle Finnegan	WSH	+4
31	Abner Uribe	MIL	+2
32	Camilo Doval	SFG	UN
33	Brendon Little	TOR	-3
34	Pete Fairbanks	TBR	+1
35	Tony Santillan	CIN	+1
36	Reed Garrett	NYM	+1
37	Felix Bautista	BAL	UN
38	Tyler Rogers	SFG	–
39	Robert Garcia	TEX	–
40	Emilio Pagan	CIN	–

Biggest Risers

Andres Munoz (RP – SEA) | +2

Andres Munoz has been the best reliever in baseball. The only knock on him is his walk rate (12.5%), but he’s able to overcome it with an elite 36% strikeout rate. Munoz leads with his slider, which has an insane 56.5% whiff rate and an unfathomable .033 batting average. With all the uncertainty around the league’s top relievers, he’s inarguably a top-three reliever the rest of the way.

Camilo Doval (RP – SF) | Unranked

Camilo Doval has found his way back into the mix at the backend of the Giants’ bullpen. He’s having success, but he’s doing it differently than we’ve seen in the past. Doval has traded in his elite strikeout rate for better quality-of-contact metrics and run suppression.

Doval’s strikeout rate ranks in the 25th percentile, whereas when he was at his best in 2023, it was in the 92nd percentile. Still, he’s managed a 1.53 ERA and 0.68 WHIP with 10 saves plus holds and two wins.

Felix Bautista (RP – BAL) | Unranked

Felix Bautista makes his way back into the top 40 after picking up two saves in two scoreless innings in the past week. He’s compiled a 1.80 ERA and 1.10 WHIP with 12 strikeouts in 10 innings with six saves plus holds. While his strikeouts aren’t quite back to where they were just yet, he’s done an excellent job keeping the runs off the board.

Biggest Fallers

Justin Martinez (RP – ARI) | -26

Justin Martinez was placed on the IL with a shoulder issue. This is a big blow to a Diamondbacks bullpen already without A.J. Puk for the foreseeable future. Martinez was having a marvelous season in terms of hard contact. His hard hit rate and average exit velocity would rank in the 99th percentile of pitchers if he qualified. Hopefully, he’ll be back pitching before too long.

Matt Strahm (RP – PHI) | -17

Matt Strahm has been solid, but the opportunities haven’t been there for him. He only has two saves plus holds in his past 10 innings over the last month. The Phillies like to use him in ways that aren’t always best for fantasy, and it’s showing during this stretch.

Despite the lack of saves plus holds, Strahm has put together a 3.07 ERA and 1.30 WHIP with 18 strikeouts in 14.2 innings with five saves plus holds and a win.