FACTS/FLUKES: Greinke, Lowrie, Berrios, McCutchen, R. Flaherty

Early bad luck hiding strong skills for Greinke... Zack Greinke (RHP, ARI) has a 4.80 ERA though his first five starts of 2018, which might be giving some of his fantasy owners flashbacks to his disappointing 2016 season. Is there reason to be worried?

Year   IP   ERA  xERA  Ctl  Dom   Cmd  GB/LD/FB  H%/S%  hr/f  FpK  SwK  BPV  VELO
====  ===  ====  ====  ===  ===  ====  ========  =====  ====  ===  ===  ===  ====
2014  202  2.71  2.93  1.9  9.2   4.8  49/23/29  32/80   12%  63%  12%  141  91.9
2015  223  1.66  3.14  1.6  8.1   5.0  48/19/33  24/84    7%  64%  13%  128  91.8
2016  159  4.37  4.10  2.3  7.6   3.3  46/20/35  31/70   14%  68%  11%   98  91.3
2017  202  3.20  3.41  2.0  9.6   4.8  47/18/35  29/76   13%  62%  13%  143 ...

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