RELIEVERS: High strikeout projections and high groundball projections
May 11 2020
This article uses the revised projections on BaseballHQ.com and takes a look at a couple of very simple filters. The first one is at least 50 strikeouts, BPV of at least 100, and an ERA and xERA better than 4.00. Using those filters, we very quickly get a list of excellent closers (ranked by ADP):
closers Sv IP Dom Cmd Cmd HR/9 xERA WHIP BPV $ ADP =================== == == ==== ===== === ==== ==== ==== === === === J.Hader (MIL) (L) 21 50 14.4 80/17 4.7 1.6 2.93 0.96 181 18 60 K.Yates (SD) 18 36 14.0 56/9 6.2 1.0 2.51 1.00 213 13 76 A.Chapman (NYY) (L) 21 41 14.1 64/20 3.2 0.4 2.82 1.10 154 17 84 L.Hendriks (OAK) 16 41 11.9 54/10 5.4 0.7 3.28 1.10 169 10 103 B.Hand (CLE) (L) 24 41 12.3 56/14...
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