PT TOMORROW: AL West—Coleless in Texas

Texas Rangers

It would seem near impossible given the collective 5.26 ERA through 109 games—superior only to that of lowly CHW among MLB rotations—but following the departure of Cole Hamels, a terrible rotation projects as having a chance to become even worse. Now atop the rotation in terms of projected IP, Bartolo Colón (RHP, TEX), Martín Pérez (LHP, TEX), and Yovani Gallardo (RHP, TEX) all own 5+ ERAs, sub-6 Doms, and all kinds of disaster potential over these final two months. Mike Minor (RHP, TEX) intrigues with a 3.5 Cmd and 10% SwK, but he too has been hit hard (4.73/4.41 ERA/xERA through 110 IP) and now looks like an imminent shut-down candidate after exceeding his 78 IP from 2017. 

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