FACTS/FLUKES: Harrison, Boesch, Escobar, Gentry, Cespedes

Harrison offers stability... It wasn't so long ago that there were concerns that Matt Harrison (LHP, TEX) might never reach the point where he could command his pitches effectively enough to stick in the Texas rotation. Harrison has silenced those doubters in the past year and half by harnessing his stuff and posting strong numbers, to the point that he was named to the AL All-Star squad last month:

Year   IP   ERA  xERA   S%   G/L/F    Ctl  Dom  Cmd  hr/f  BPV
====  ===  ====  ====  ===  ========  ===  ===  ===  ====  ===
2008   84  5.49  5.22  67%  40/24/36  3.3  4.5  1.4   11%    9
2009   63  6.11  4.92  64%  47/23/31  3.3  4.8  1.5   13%   24
2010   78  4.71  5.08  72%  47/21/33  4.5  5.3  1.2   12%   -1
2011  186  3.39  3.86 ...

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