RELIEVERS: Answering February's questions

Today, this column revisits the ten questions asked back in mid-February regarding roles in bullpens for Opening Day. The picture on some of these role battles is clearer and on others we still must wait. We start, as we did then, with question #10: "Which Rays reliever will bring more value in 2015, Brad Boxberger (RHP, TAM) or Jake McGee (LHP, TAM)?"

TAM                Sv  IP  xERA WHIP  Dom  Cmd HR/9  G/F  BPV R$ ADP
============       == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===== === == === 
Boxberger          16  73  2.57 1.00 12.7  4.0  0.9 41/42 161 12 232
McGee (L)          16  58  2.77 1.00 11.0  4.7  0.6 40/41 153  9 201

McGee starts the year on the disabled list. Boxberger, therefore, will close to begin the season. The projections...

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