STARTERS: BPV leaders, 2017 last 12 months

As we hit the midpoint of the season, our expectations of a player's performance can be overshadowed by recent events, since we tend to aggregate stats in yearly increments.

A helpful exercise at this juncture can be to look back over the last 12 months (second half of 2016 + first half of 2017) and analyze the combined skills posted by SP over those two periods.

These have been the most skilled starting pitchers over the last 12 months:

100+ BPV, July 2016 to June 2017*

Name          Lg  Ctl  Dom   HR/9  GB%  H%/S%   hr/f  FAv   SwK%   FpK%  Ball%  BPV
============  ==  ===  ====  ====  ===  ======  ====  ====  =====  ====  =====  ===
Sale, C       AL  1.7  11.1   0.9  40%  31/71%   10%  94.7  14.5%   64%    32%  172
Wood, A       NL...

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