The debate over reliever WAR has been one of the more interesting slow-and-steady discussions over the past few years in baseball.
On the one hand, relievers only throw 60 or so innings a season, so how much can they really be worth?
Of course, on the flip side of that, their innings are often the most important innings in the game, with high-leverage moments galore.
Everything with relievers is just much more under the microscope, and the Rays are experiencing that right now, as they have been without their “closer” and top reliever, Jose Alvarado, since June 1.