RELIEVERS: Sleepers 2016

Today we are looking at sleepers. In this context, we define sleepers as someone who has skills that far outstretch the current role, and where there may be an opportunity to jump up the ladder quickly due to skills inequities within a given pen. Arizona provides us with the first sleeper—Daniel Hudson (RHP, ARI):

ARI              Sv  IP  xERA WHIP  Dom  Cmd HR/9  G/F  BPV  R$ ADP
============     == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===== === === === 
Ziegler          36  58  3.10 1.07  5.6  2.3  0.5 70/14  82   7 218
D.Hudson          5  58  3.59 1.23  8.4  3.2  0.8 41/36  98  -4 426

This column mentioned Silvio Bracho (RHP, ARI) in the last column as a LIMA option. Bracho qualifies as a sleeper too. And so does Daniel Hudson, with strong...

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