STARTERS: 2017 Week one observations
Apr 7 2017
It's easy to panic after your SP has a terrible start or two during the first week of the season. It can be similarly dangerous to fall in love with a pitcher who gives you good stats if they were produced without any underlying skill support.
Keeping in mind that we're dealing with tiny data samples, let's take a look at some extreme week-one early season performances by putting them into the context of our preseason outlooks.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Dylan Bundy (RHP, BAL) gave us a tease of his upside in his first start of the year, a PQS-5 gem against TOR. His underlying skills during that start fully supported his PQS-5: 8/0 K/BB in 7 IP. Underneath that top-tier command were some of the best command sub-indicators you will ever find: 17%...
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