STARTERS: Skill surgers and faders, 2013 to 2014

Let's continue our look at skill surgers and faders of starting pitchers by comparing skills shown in 2013 with those displayed so far in 2014.

We will look at a lot of skills here, so feel free to click on the links below to jump directly to the ones that interest you the most.

BPV | Dom | Ctl | FAv | GB% | SwK% | FpK% | H% | S% | hr/f


These starting pitchers have seen their BPV increase or decline a lot between 2013 and so far in 2014:

  • BPV surgers and faders, 2013 to 2014*

    
    Name                League  BPV '13  BPV '14  Diff
    ==================  ======  =======  =======  ====
    Arrieta, Jake           NL       15      133  +118
    Kershaw, Clayton        NL      130      210  + 80
    Hammel, Jason           AL       42      114  +...

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