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Closing Knights
Off-Base Percentage, or OFB. To get a reliever's OFB, take the number of batters he retires, and divide that by the total number of batters he faces. Functionally, OFB is the inverse of on-base percentage, and the guys with a high OFB are the ones you'd like to have on the pitcher's mound in the late innings with a one-run lead. With that in mind, here are this season's leaders in OFB.

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