(*) STARTERS: Mid-season sell high targets 2014
Jun 29 2014
We've focused most of the first half of the season on identifying buying opportunities among starting pitchers.
The mid-season mark is a good time to identify SP that you should consider selling high on. To do so, we'll look for guys with strong surface stats but ugly underlying indicators.
Let's use the variance between expected ERA (xERA) vs. actual ERA to identify these overperformers:
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xERA vs. ERA* Name League ERA xERA Diff ================== ====== ==== ==== ===== Young, Chris AL 3.23 5.42 +2.19 Kahnle, Thomas NL 2.18 4.07 +1.89 Buehrle, Mark AL 2.52 4.25 +1.73 Matsuzaka, Daisuke NL 2.68 4.36 +1.68 Duffy, Danny AL 2.69 4.31 +1.62 Hale, David ...
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