RELIEVERS: AL Central and NL Central, 2015

Today, we take a quick look at the AL Central and NL Central pens for 2015, and of course, we start in the South Side of Chicago where the White Sox pen has been a year-long mess. Here are the BPIs (through August):

CHW              IP   Dom  Cmd HR/9  xERA  BPV  Clean/App  LI
============    ==== ==== ==== ==== =====  ===  ========= ==== 
Petricka        65.0  6.8  1.6  0.4  3.59   52    37/57   1.38
Belisario       60.0  6.5  3.1  0.6  3.41   99    28/54   1.56 (FA)
Putnam          49.3  7.5  2.4  0.4  3.33   82    32/43   1.49
Guerra          38.0  8.1  2.0  0.7  4.13   56    22/34   1.27
Lindstrom       25.7  6.0  1.7  1.1  4.49   40    16/25   1.16 (FA)
D.Webb          60.3  7.0  1.3  0.8  4.39   12    27/48   0.97

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