RELIEVERS: Not too late for ERA/WHIP help
Aug 12 2018
On BaseballHQ.com under the Stats and Tools tab is the Custom Draft Guide. That engine still has a lot of in-season use, and one of them is the ability to isolate particular categories. Today, this column just takes a very simple approach for a 15-team mixed league and isolates ERA and WHIP to the exclusion of all other pitching categories for the rest of the season. There will be 135 pitchers in use at any one time in that kind of league. The goal is to find the relievers who can actually add value to a team in ERA and WHIP, per the projections, over the balance of the year.
From the values provided under the Custom Draft Guide, we can quickly rank order all the pitchers just for the value they provide in ERA and WHIP. Chris Sale (LHP,...
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