AL West: Is a scenery change plus better luck the key for Pressly?
Jun 13 2024
The post-July roster here could well depend on how much closer this disappointing club moves into postseason contention between now and then. But it's clear that the woefully underachieving back-of-the-bullpen needs to turn things around quickly, or it's likely to look different come August 1.
At least to date, Ryan Pressly has been surprisingly more ineffective as the team's primary setup man – 5.19 ERA with five blown saves through 26 IP – compared with Josh Hader. But Pressly had been a solid closing option in HOU prior to Hader's arrival, and apart from an obviously inflated 43% H% and fewer ground balls at the low end of his historical range, his underlying metrics (3.16 xERA, 21% K-BB%) are by no means awful, or...
Almost!
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