RELIEVERS: SEA, NYM, TAM, SF, TOR

Seattle closer Edwin Díaz (RHP, SEA) has a 3.77 ERA, 1.12 WHIP and 20 strikeouts against 6 walks in 14.3 innings to start 2017. He has seven saves in nine tries. What is everyone so jumpy about?

           
SEA               Sv BS Hd  IP   DOM  CMD HR/9 xERA BPV CLN/APP  LI   vL   vR
================  == == == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== === ======= ==== ==== ====
E.Diaz             7  2  0 14.3 12.6  3.3  1.9 3.30 138  10/14  1.68 .273 .129
Rzepczynski (L)    0  0  3  9.3  6.8  3.5  --  2.73 115  14/14  1.38 .045 .143
J.Pazos (L)        0  1  1 15.0 12.0  2.9  --  2.56 146  11/14  1.05 .105 .270
Machi              0  0  0  5.3  3.4  0.5  1.7 5.61 -84   3/4   1.01 .143 .300 
Vincent            0  0  0 16.7  8.1  5.0  --  3.56 116  12/15 ...

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