RELIEVERS: Drastic xERA changes over the past month
Aug 19 2014
Last week, this column looked at which relievers are used in the highest leverage situations this season. This week, we look at a handful of relievers who have had a big change in their expected ERA over the past month and see how this affects their pens and their roles. Here are the five relievers that caught our attention:
xERA 30xERA
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Ziegler (ARI) 3.17 4.56
B.Wilson (LA) 4.06 2.43
Howell (LA) (L) 3.28 5.03
Duensing (MIN) (L) 4.00 2.87
R.Soriano (WAS) 3.67 4.67Brad Ziegler (RHP, ARI), J.P. Howell (LHP, LA) and Rafael Soriano (RHP, WAS) have all been a full run of xERA worse the past month than they have been across the entire season. Meanwhile, Brian...
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