FACTS/FLUKES: Santana, Andrus, Kinsler, Zimmermann, Beltran

Santana on record pace ... With 2,200+ career innings of a 4.02 ERA and 1.26 WHIP, you'd have been pretty safe to expect little from Ervin Santana (RHP, MIN) this season. So naturally, the 34-year-old boasts a 2.20 ERA and 0.89 WHIP through 13 starts in 2017. No way he keeps this up, right?

Year  IP   ERA   xERA  Ctl  Dom  Cmd  GB/LD/FB  H%/S%  hr/f  FpK  Ball%  SwK  BPV
====  ===  ====  ====  ===  ===  ===  ========  =====  ====  ===  =====  ===  ===
2014  196  3.95  3.57  2.9  8.2  2.8  43/25/33  32/71    9%  63%   36%   12%   91
2015  108  4.00  4.38  3.0  6.8  2.3  41/22/38  29/72   10%  61%   38%   10%   61
2016  181  3.38  4.20  2.6  7.4  2.8  43/22/36  29/76   10%  59%   38%   10%   83
2017   90  2.20  4.34  3.3  6.3  1.9 ...

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