FACTS/FLUKES: Peavy, Reddick, Happ, Chavez, Kluber

Peavy improves with age... After three straight injury-shortened campaigns where he continued to flash strong skills, it was hard to know if Jake Peavy (RHP, CHW) could find a way to improve his results while staying healthy over a full season. Peavy has succeeded on both counts so far in 2012 by avoiding the DL while translating strong skills into strong results:

Year   IP   ERA  xERA   H%   S%  Ctl  Dom  Cmd  hr/f  BPV
====  ===  ====  ====  ===  ===  ===  ===  ===  ====  ===
2008  174  2.85  3.69  28%  80%  3.1  8.6  2.8   10%   91
2009  102  3.45  3.38  29%  71%  3.0  9.7  3.2    8%  114
2010  107  4.63  4.01  29%  65%  2.9  7.8  2.7   10%   83
2011  112  4.92  3.59  33%  61%  1.9  7.7  4.0    8%  103
2012  181  3.28  3.76  29% ...

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