STARTERS: BPV leaders, 2018 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 2017+ first half of 2018) and analyze the combined skills posted by players over those two periods.

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

100+ BPV, July 2017 to June 2018*

Name          Lg  Ctl  Dom   HR/9  GB%  H%/S%   hr/f  FAv   SwK%   FpK%  Ball%  BPV
============  ==  ===  ====  ====  ===  ======  ====  ====  =====  ====  =====  ===
Sale, C       AL  2.1  13.2   1.0  42%  31/78%   13%  94.9  14.7%   68%    32%  200
Stripling, R...

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