RELIEVERS: Cubs, Angels, Mariners, Nationals and others

This column focuses on the Cubs, Angels, Mariners, Nationals, and visits a couple other developing situations. Let's start with the Cubs who picked up another save from Rowan Wick (RHP, CHC) on Thursday against Milwaukee. Wick and set-up Jeremy Jeffress (RHP, CHC) are outperforming their projections and handling the back end duties just fine after Craig Kimbrel's (RHP, CHC) implosion.

CHC                  Sv  IP  xERA WHIP  Dom  Cmd HR/9  BPV pBPV
===================  == ===  ==== ==== ==== ==== ====  === ====
R.Wick                2 5.0  3.94 1.20  9.0  5.0  --   131   82
J.Jeffress            1 7.0  3.31 0.14  6.4  5.0  --   106   78
K.Ryan (L)            1 4.7  4.29 1.50  3.9  --   1.9   94   58
C.Kimbrel             0 2.7 15.60...

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