RELIEVERS: 2016 Bullpen preview: AL West, NL West

This week, we turn to the ten teams in the AL and NL West, starting with Houston. Houston has managed to have seven (!) 100+ BPV relievers make 40-50 appearances in 2015, mostly succeeding in high leverage. This is what you want from a pen—flexibility, depth and use of individual talents as a weapon:

HOU           Sv   IP    Dom  Cmd HR/9  xERA  BPV Clean/App  LI      
============= ==  ====  ==== ==== ====  ====  === ========= ====
Gregerson     24  50.0   8.1  4.5  0.9  2.91  135   40/51   1.33
Qualls         4  40.7   8.2  4.6  1.1  2.84  143   33/47   1.12
Neshek         1  46.3   8.9  5.8  1.2  3.43  128   42/54   1.31
W.Harris       1  56.0   8.8  3.2  0.8  3.01  116   38/51   1.27
Fields         0  41.0  11.9  3.6  0.2  3.21 ...

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