RELIEVERS: Back to basics
May 22 2012
It is time to get back to basics. Reading Ron Shandler's column from last Friday made me realize that folks may be pulling the plug on everything that we think we know and spending their FAAB money on whatever reliever got a save this week. That is not the smart play if the reliever has the stronger role for a moment, but also has a terrible set of skills. Skills over roles remains the best percentage play and remains the play that managers are trying to make themselves. So it is time to get back to the very basics—6.0 or better Dom, 2.0 or better Cmd, 1.0 or better HR/9, under 4.00 xERA, over 70 BPV. Let's add those same filters for year-to-date and for projections and require at least nine innings pitched. The result is a list of...
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