RELIEVERS: 2015 Sleepers
Mar 4 2015
Today we are looking at sleepers. In this context, we define sleepers as someone who has skills that far outstretch the current role, but where there may be an opportunity to jump up the ladder quickly due to skills inequities within a given pen. We start in Colorado:
COL Sv IP xERA WHIP Dom Cmd HR/9 G/F BPV R$ ADP ============ == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===== === === === Hawkins 25 44 3.85 1.25 5.7 2.6 0.6 48/30 68 -1 287 Ottavino 7 73 3.28 1.25 9.0 2.9 0.7 47/31 104 -2 445 Brothers (L) 4 73 3.88 1.49 9.6 1.9 1.0 43/34 58 -8 565 Axford 0 58 3.81 1.52 9.9 1.9 1.4 48/34 62 -15 608 D.Hale 0 58 4.54 1.66 4.8 1.3 0.8...
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