FACTS/FLUKES: Montas, K. Davis, Hill, Y. Diaz, J. Jones

Is Montas for real? … Frankie Montas (RHP, OAK) was on his way to a breakout season before MLB suspended him 80 games for violating its policy on performance enhancing drugs. He returned in time for just one September start and finished 2019 with a 2.63 ERA in 96 IP. Are the results backed by his underlying skills?

Year   IP   ERA  xERA  Ctl  Dom  Cmd  Ball%/SwK  GB/LD/FB  H%/S% hr/f  BPV 
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2015* 127  3.85  3.47  4.3  8.3  1.9   N/A/13%   38/16/46  32/71   6%   86
2017*  61  6.62  5.95  4.0  9.7  2.5   37%/12%   35/24/41  34/61  26%   47
2018   65  3.88  4.76  2.9  6.0  2.0   36%/ 9%   44/25/31  33/74   7%   51
2019   96  2.63  3.54  2.2  9.7  4.5   35%/12%  ...

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