Ranking the SF Giants' best options to replace Camilo Doval as closer

The best SF Giants closer option to replace Camilo Doval

1. Ryan Walker

Ryan Walker is the best candidate to be the closer for the Giants. Sure, he only has one career save, but he undeniably has the stuff of a closer.

He has a wicked sinker and a nasty slider. He also does not walk a lot of batters, only surrendering 13 free passes in 60 and 1/3 innings pitched. Compare that with Camilo Doval's 29 walks in 44 innings and your mouth starts to water involuntarily imagining a 9th inning without any walks.

Plus, if you have noticed Ryan Walker likes to tilt his cap to one side when he pitches. We saw Santiago Casilla do the same thing when he was a closer for the Giants. That was also the signature move of longtime MLB closer Fernando Rodney.

I firmly believe that any reliever who tilts their cap to one side is capable of being a closer. It is their way or letting everyone know that they're just a little bit crazy. They don't conform to the conventional rules of society that everyone else must follow. A batter in the box sees a pitcher with that cap slightly askew and has that moment of brief panic where they think the pitcher might bean them in the ribs in an 0-2 count because he just wants to watch the world burn like the Joker.

Walker's profile as a pitcher makes him a great candidate to be a closer, but the cap thing puts him over the top. The Giants need to make a change at closer and soon. Doval is not cutting it. Perhaps some sort of closer by committee approach would work but Melvin needs to do something right now because the current situation is not tenable.