STARTERS: Post-All Star Break skill surgers

Identifying post-All Star Break skill surgers can help us shape our starting rotations for the stretch run.

First, here are the SP who have shown the largest BPV increase in the second half:

  • BPV - 2H vs. 1H
    
                                ---------1H-------- | ---------2H-------- |
    Name                League  Ctl  Dom   GB%  BPV | Ctl  Dom   GB%  BPV | BPV Diff
    ==================  ======  ===  ====  ===  === | ===  ====  ===  === | ========
    Fernandez, Jose         NL  3.4   8.9  43%   88 | 2.1  11.8  51%  187 |    +99
    Guthrie, Jeremy         AL  3.2   4.3  43%   12 | 1.6   6.8  45%  101 |    +89
    Ryu, Hyun-Jin           NL  3.0   7.2  49%   75 | 1.1   8.0  55%  146 |    +71
    Strasburg, Stephen      NL  3.1   9.1  51%  109 | 1.4  10.4 ...

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