RELIEVERS: 2018 Gambles

This week, we flip the script and look at gambles. Gambles in this column are closers with significant risk. There are always plenty of these—injury risk, poor skills risk, relative volatility risk. We highlight just a few, starting with health risk. The Mayberry Method (those not familiar with it can start here) provides a pitching score that reflects ERA, Dom, saves, PT via numbers, then three letter grades for health, PT history, and consistent skills. We want to focus on that first letter for health:

                      MM Code
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Vizcaino (ATL)       2431 FCA
B.Morrow (CHC)       2330 FDF
W.Davis (COL)        3530 DBA
Familia (NYM)        4431 FAB
Melancon (SF)        5330 DAA
Claudio (TEX)        3020...

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