STARTERS: September skill split speculations

If you're looking to gamble on starting pitching over the final five weeks, you need to dig deep. That's what we'll do here.

Let's take our final in-season look at wide skill splits to find the SP whose aggregate skills might be masking some elite skill flashes.

First, here are the SP with the widest skill splits when facing LH/RH bats:

  • BPV vs. LH/RH Bats
    
                                        -------vs LH------- | -------vs RH------- | Diff
    Name                League  Throws  Ctl  Dom   GB%  BPV | Ctl  Dom   GB%  BPV | BPV
    ==================  ======  ======  ===  ====  ===  === | ===  ====  ===  === | ====
    Saunders, Joe           AL     LHP  1.9   7.9  58%  128 | 3.4   4.1  48%    8 | -120
    Kershaw, Clayton        NL     LHP  1.9  13.9...

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