SPECULATOR: Searching for the next Jaime Garcia

Building on Brent's good work earlier this month with his "Searching for the next A.J. Pollock" article, we wanted to conduct a similar exercise for pitchers.

Selecting a subject candidate wasn't that simple, though. We have come so far in pitching analysis, that it isn't as easy as it used to be to slap together a set of skills filters and create a list of off-the-radar breakout candidates. In a sense, everyone's on the radar already. Such is the age we live in.

Of course, one of the last dark corners of the analytical universe is the question of health. Around here, we like to say things like "chronically injured players don't suddenly get healthy." That bit of pith tends to serve us well over the larger sample size, but it doesn't...

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