Let’s continue reviewing the rookie hitters. Today, let’s discuss the three hitters I initially reviewed in mid-May. Like in my rookie review last week, I won’t be formatting this update as a good news/bad news list, but compare their performance through the time I posted my first review with what they have done since.
Back in mid-May, I started reviewing some of the top rookie hitters. Back then, a little less than a month and a half were in the books, so we were still in small sample territory. Let’s now review those same three rookies and find out how they have performed since.
Let’s run through one final set of new everyday players. This group includes a bunch of interesting names and top prospects.
We’re going to continue the rundown of new everyday players, as these are your deeper league targets, and sometimes even shallower leagues. With so many players suddenly finding themselves with regular playing time, or being recalled from the minors and handed a starting job, it’s easy to miss someone.
The new everyday players keep on coming! Let’s continue reviewing the fresh faces in starting lineups and see if we could identify any must-adds.
Let’s keep it going by introducing you to another crop of new everyday hitters. You can find the first five discussed yesterday here.
It’s that time again, when I dive into a collection of hitters who have recently earned regular playing time. These are the guys who could quickly plug a hole, which I’m sure every one of you have at least one of right now.
On Thursday, I reviewed the starting pitchers that had most underperformed their Statcast xERA marks. Now let’s review the overperformers. This group has likely posted BABIP, LOB%, and HR/FB rate marks significantly better than the league average. So let’s find out who might experience some serious ERA inflation over the rest of the way.
I haven’t done a lot of research on Statcast’s xERA metric, but it’s similar to batter xwOBA in that it uses a pitcher’s actual batted balls against to compute what a pitcher’s ERA “should” be. That means for all those who love justifying a pitcher’s low BABIP being the result of allowing soft contact, xERA should theoretically account for this. Now, this doesn’t mean the pitcher will continue to allow the types of batted balls that have resulted in a suppressed or inflated xERA, but it does suggest that what they have already allowed should yield the calculated xERA. So let’s review the pitchers who have most underperformed their xERA marks.
Yesterday, I discussed the hitters who have most underperformed their xwOBA marks. Let’s now check in on the flip side, those hitters who have most overperformed their xwOBA marks. Does this group make for good sell high candidates? Let’s find out.
