Nate Jones (RP, CHW) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

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OWNED IN: 44% of leagues

ANALYSIS: If Nate Jones is still available in your league, you'll want to move quickly to pick him up. His ownership rate has nearly doubled in the last 24 hours and only figures to continue rising. The veteran reliever has received the last three save opportunities for the White Sox and converted all of them. His ratios (3.32 ERA, 1.26 WHIP) don't leap off the page, but they're skewed by a meltdown outing earlier this month against the Pirates in which he allowed four of the seven runs he's given up this year. Jones hasn't allowed a run since then, and looks to have assumed the role as primary closing option for Rick Renteria. He certainly has the stuff to close, as his swinging strike rate compares favorably to such marquee relievers as Felipe Vasquez and Kenley Jansen.