Note: I forgot Boston! I thought I had all 30 teams accounted for, but it wasn’t until I was about to post that I realized there was no Matt Barnes! Barnes goes in the “More-Stable-Than-We-Think?” group because while I think Garrett Whitlock could be a stud closer, they seem committed to expanding his role, even if it’s not into a true starter. Whitlock could eventually find his way back to the late-innings, but for now appears set to get multi-inning outings and might eventually become a true starter if it is successful. Barnes wore down after a brilliant start to the season, allowing nearly as many earned runs in August (10) as he had in the first 4 months combined (11). Darwinzon Hernandez isn’t a real threat until he gets his walk rate down quite a bit from his career 18%. In fact, that’s a major issue for most of the guys who would challenge Barnes: Jake Diekman, Hirokazu Sawamura, and Eduard Bazardo.

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tphnoob

2 years ago

I just can’t get on the Gallegos train, I really think they prefer to keep him in the fireman role that he has, same with Treinen, they brought in Hudson and his contract has games finished incentives- $100,000 each for 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, I feel like they prefer the 1 close 1 fireman type situation. Meanwhile I am really banking on Jansen’s walk rate to go down this year. 6.87 bb% and a 39.69k% from his first August appearance through the playoffs, about a 35 2/3s inning sample size, seems like he finally got into his new mechanics/delivery and figured something out.

BAL	CHW	LAA
BOS	CLE	OAK
NYY	DET	SEA
TBR	KCR	TEX
TOR	MIN	HOU

ATL	CHC*	ARI
MIA	CIN	COL
WSN	MIL	LAD
NYM*	PIT	SDP*
PHI	STL	SFG