RELIEVERS: Comparing usage, leverage, skills, and projections for CIN, DET, COL, NYY, and WAS

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Doug Dennis

Apr 21 2019 1:05am

RELIEVERS: Comparing usage, leverage, skills, and projections for CIN, DET, COL, NYY, and WAS

Doug Dennis

Apr 21 2019

As promised, this column will continue comparing usage with projected skill sets to help you make decisions, once again using Leverage Index ("LI"), invented by Tom Tango. At this point, it gives us a view of usage over the first couple weeks, which can be helpful when teams are all doing very different things with their bullpens. This week's pens are Cincinnati, Detroit, Colorado, N.Y. Yankees, and Washington.

Starting in Cincinnati, things have gone poorly so far in 2019. Two bright spots are Amir Garrett (LHP, CIN) and Robert Stephenson (RHP, CIN). Garrett pitches in leverage; Stephenson has not (so far). Closer Raisel Iglesias (RHP, CIN) has been brutal and he is not the only one. Here is the usage chart (all usage data is through...

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