FACTS/FLUKES: Maeda, Olson, C. Taylor, Berrios, M. Chapman

Maeda the master? ... Despite a dud 2017 season that included a couple bullpen demotions, the Baseball Forecaster saw “valuable upside” in Kenta Maeda (RHP, LA) for 2018. He’s delivered with nearly 100 innings of a career-best 3.27 ERA; close to a full run better than 2017’s 4.22 mark. Which one should we believe in?

Year   IP   ERA  xERA  Ctl   Dom  Cmd  GB/LD/FB  H%/S%  hr/f  FpK  SwK  BPV
====  ===  ====  ====  ===  ====  ===  ========  =====  ====  ===  ===  ===
2015# 176  4.32  4.37  3.2   8.7  2.7     N/A    28/73   N/A  N/A  N/A   65
2016  176  3.48  3.63  2.6   9.2  3.6  44/20/36  29/73   12%  61%  12%  118
2017  134  4.22  3.89  2.3   9.4  4.1  38/22/40  29/69   15%  64%  13%  123
2018   94  3.27  3.43  3.1  11.0  3.6  39/25/36...

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