F/F SPOTLIGHT: Jose Quintana
Jul 24 2014
There’s nothing magical about a player’s first-half/second-half stat splits in any given season. Like other attempts to break off a larger sample size—such as a full season—into smaller bite-size pieces, the exercise wavers in the direction of the arbitrary endpoints game. But for younger players especially, who are just beginning the career-long adjustment/counter-adjustment cycle, sometimes there are gems to find in half-season splits.
Like José Quintana (LHP, CHW). Quintana only has five wins through his first 21 starts, but his performance improvements this year—3.15 ERA, 101 BPV, PQS DOM/DIS% of 67/10—have quietly produced under-the-radar fantasy value and seems to have set him up for even better things to come. Some of the...
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