Author Archive: Paul Sporer

5/23/19

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As we wind down the second month of the season, stat lines are beginning to take shape and we certainly feel like we know more about how the season will unfold. There are definitely some things happening early on that you can put some weight into, but we still have four months left in the season, too, meaning a lot will still change.

Through May last year, Zack Wheeler had a 5.40 ERA, Luis Castillo was at 5.49, Jameson Taillon was at 4.53, and Masahiro Tanaka was at 4.62. German Marquez was at 4.21, but that would balloon to 5.53 five starts later and of course we know that from there, he absolutely went off. Afterthoughts like Mike Minor, Danny Duffy, Mike Fiers, Derek Holland, Lance Lynn and even Alex Cobb all had ERAs north of 5.00 and were left for dead through May before finding extended periods of fantasy relevance throughout the summer. Minor was downright all-formats viable from June on.

Let’s look at some of the biggest strugglers through two months and discuss what the future might have in store for them.

(in descending order by ERA)

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5/21/19

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• Houston (2:05)
• Kansas City (22:20)
• LA Angels (26:53)
• LA Dodgers (40:22)
• Miami (59:33)

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5/20/19

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS, INJURIES, RUMORS

• David Price back
  • Hyun-Jin Ryu in SC lgs
• Eloy Jimenez possibly back
• Giancarlo Stanton cleared for rehab
  • Him & Aaron Judge in SC lgs

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5/17/19

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5/17/19

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5/16/19

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS/INJURIES/RUMORS (8:42)

• Trea Turner possibly back Friday (1:30)
• Jeimer Candelario sent down (3:30)
• Miguel Andujar officially toast (6:05)

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5/15/19

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ROTATION CHECK-INS BY TEAM

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I took a look at the batting leaderboards since the start of the 2018 second half (July 19th). I didn’t set out to find anything in particular, I just wanted to see what’s been going on over the last three-plus months of games. I used a 300 PA cutoff which gave us 170 hitters. Here’s a few interesting nuggets I found on the AVG & HR boards:

BATTING AVERAGE

Christian Yelich | .357 in 457 PA – Yelich is unsurprisingly lapping the field with a 16-point advantage (he also has a 111-point OPS advantage over Mike Trout) over the next guy. I haven’t looked at every category yet, but I’m sure Yelich has substantial leads in several of them given his utterly insane finish that has carried over into this year.

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