RELIEVERS: High strikeout projections and high groundball projections

This article uses the revised projections on BaseballHQ.com and takes a look at a couple of very simple filters. The first one is at least 50 strikeouts, BPV of at least 100, and an ERA and xERA better than 4.00. Using those filters, we very quickly get a list of excellent closers (ranked by ADP):

closers             Sv IP  Dom  Cmd  Cmd HR/9 xERA WHIP BPV  $  ADP
=================== == == ==== ===== === ==== ==== ==== === === ===
J.Hader (MIL) (L)   21 50 14.4 80/17 4.7  1.6 2.93 0.96 181  18  60
K.Yates (SD)        18 36 14.0 56/9  6.2  1.0 2.51 1.00 213  13  76
A.Chapman (NYY) (L) 21 41 14.1 64/20 3.2  0.4 2.82 1.10 154  17  84
L.Hendriks (OAK)    16 41 11.9 54/10 5.4  0.7 3.28 1.10 169  10 103
B.Hand (CLE) (L)    24 41 12.3 56/14...

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