The closer market this year has been much cooler than in recent years, even on top of last year's slight decline in free-agent closer contracts; this may just be a sign of increasingly rational behavior on the part of GMs. Relievers had become wildly overvalued in the mid-2000s, both because of the stubborn belief in the closer/non-closer dichotomy (this guy is a closer because he's closed, that guy isn't going to be a closer because he's not a closer already) and because teams were pricing leverage into the contracts instead of paying for independent value. Rodney in particular should be concerned as a second-tier closer with shaky command; he may have to settle for set-up money when, two or three years ago, he would have landed maybe twice what he's going to get now.