Duran’s addition gives PHI a controllable late-inning option, adding a high-leverage arm to anchor the bullpen.

Beloved closer traded during the 2024-25 period, reflecting the payroll re-balancing and long-term rebuild. His departure marks a bullpen transition, with implications for late-inning fantasy value and bullpen stability under new arms.

Duran provides Philadelphia with a high-leverage option in the late innings, likely boosting save opportunities and stabilizing the bullpen upside for fantasy managers; his usage will determine the ceiling of Philly’s relief corps in October.

Duran locks down the ninth as one of the game’s top relievers, delivering elite closer value for Philly’s late innings and helping stabilize a bullpen in a high-stakes stretch run.

Duran is cited as the closer who shut down McNeil with the tying run on base, underscoring the Mets’ late-inning challenges and the tight, high-leverage nature of the stretch drive.