STARTERS: 2020 Short-season targets, NL

Let's continue our skills-based approach for targeting starting pitchers in a shortened season.

In an effort to find hidden flashes of strong skills, below were the largest monthly BPV variances by NL starting pitchers in 2019:

  • Monthly BPV Max vs. Min, 2019*
    
                                  2019 BPV Per Month
                                  ------------------
    Name                    League  Max  Min  Diff
    ======================  ======  ===  ===  ====
    Darvish, Yu                 NL  266   28  +238
    Castillo, Luis              NL  206   41  +165
    Smith, Caleb                NL  158   17  +141
    Buehler, Walker             NL  210   79  +131
    Porcello, Rick              AL  159   33  +126
    Wheeler, Zack               NL  178   54  +125
    Ryu,...

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