FACTS/FLUKES: Hendricks, Wainwright, Tomas, Flores, H. Perez

Hendricks throwing up goose eggs ... Kyle Hendricks (RHP, CHC) has been dominant lately, allowing a total of six earned runs over his last nine appearances (eight starts), lowering his ERA to 2.22 for the year. Is he ace material?

Year    IP   ERA  xERA  Ctl  Dom  Cmd  FpK  SwK   Vel    G/L/F   H%  S%  hr/f  BPV
====   ===  ====  ====  ===  ===  ===  ===  ===  ====  ========  ==  ==  ====  ===
2013*  166  2.46  3.17  1.9  5.7  2.9  N/A  N/A   N/A     N/A    31  80   N/A   90
2014#  183  3.45  3.42  1.9  6.3  3.3  64%   8%  87.9  48/19/33  31  72    5%   94
2015   180  3.95  3.28  2.2  8.4  3.9  63%   9%  88.3  51/22/27  30  68   12%  121
2016   126  2.22  3.56  2.5  7.7  3.1  69%  10%  87.7  52/18/29  27  82    9%  102
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