Dewan: Relief pitcher leaderboards

From SABR member John Dewan at ACTA Sports on January 7, 2016:

Context is critically important in evaluating relievers. Beyond just the obvious requirement for a reliever to be deployed with a small lead at the end of a game to earn a save, different relievers face all kinds of more subtle differences in the difficulty of their relief appearances in order to earn saves and other good statistics. Pulling from The 2016 Bill James Handbook, here are a few leaderboards that provide a window into some greater context for relievers from 2015 than what saves alone can provide.

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Originally published: January 7, 2016. Last Updated: January 7, 2016.