RELIEVERS: 2016 Bullpen preview: AL West, NL West
Sep 15 2015
This week, we turn to the ten teams in the AL and NL West, starting with Houston. Houston has managed to have seven (!) 100+ BPV relievers make 40-50 appearances in 2015, mostly succeeding in high leverage. This is what you want from a pen—flexibility, depth and use of individual talents as a weapon:
HOU Sv IP Dom Cmd HR/9 xERA BPV Clean/App LI ============= == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== === ========= ==== Gregerson 24 50.0 8.1 4.5 0.9 2.91 135 40/51 1.33 Qualls 4 40.7 8.2 4.6 1.1 2.84 143 33/47 1.12 Neshek 1 46.3 8.9 5.8 1.2 3.43 128 42/54 1.31 W.Harris 1 56.0 8.8 3.2 0.8 3.01 116 38/51 1.27 Fields 0 41.0 11.9 3.6 0.2 3.21 ...
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