The Guardians' Emmanuel Clase uses a cutter to close out ballgames, just like Mariano Rivera once did for the Yankees.

Emmanuel Clase is breaking bats and records at an almost equal rate. He’s become baseball’s grim reaper, the cream of the closer crop. Cleveland’s right-hander with a devilish cut fastball ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Is Emmanuel Clase the closer’s version of Muhammad Ali? As a young boxer on the way to the heavyweight championship of the world, Ali would tell anyone who would listen that ...

Clase earned the save against the Reds on Wednesday, allowing one hit and two walks with one strikeout in a scoreless ninth inning. Clase was called upon to protect a 5-2 lead in the ninth frame ...

It was only fitting that on a night the relievers took a combined perfect game into the sixth inning, Emmanuel Clase also set incredible franchise history to close out the night. Clase is putting ...

CLEVELAND — Emmanuel Clase is reigniting a national conversation about one of the game's most prestigious awards. Relief pitchers are rarely even considered for the Cy Young Award, given out to ...

Detroit Tigers starter Tarik Skubal and Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase have been the two best pitchers in the ...

check out my work at Reliever Recon and Closer Monkey (Top photo of Emmanuel Clase: Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images) ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Emmanuel ... hears Clase's entrance song blaring through the ballpark's sound system and sees his teammate jogging across the outfield grass with his braided, colored hair ...