RELIEVERS: 2015 Sleepers

Today we are looking at sleepers. In this context, we define sleepers as someone who has skills that far outstretch the current role, but where there may be an opportunity to jump up the ladder quickly due to skills inequities within a given pen. We start in Colorado:

COL                Sv  IP  xERA WHIP  Dom  Cmd HR/9  G/F  BPV  R$ ADP
============       == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===== === === === 
Hawkins            25  44  3.85 1.25  5.7  2.6  0.6 48/30  68  -1 287
Ottavino            7  73  3.28 1.25  9.0  2.9  0.7 47/31 104  -2 445
Brothers (L)        4  73  3.88 1.49  9.6  1.9  1.0 43/34  58  -8 565
Axford              0  58  3.81 1.52  9.9  1.9  1.4 48/34  62 -15 608
D.Hale              0  58  4.54 1.66  4.8  1.3  0.8...

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