RELIEVERS: Strong K/BB ratios in March

Today, we examine some spring training stud relievers to see if they have potential for impacting your league this year. The data sets are very small (7-10 innings, in fact) so this is less about the spring stats themselves and more about who has earned some attention and where they might slot longer term in their team's bullpen.

As seems to happen quite a bit this preseason, we start in Colorado where former closer Rafael Betancourt (RHP, COL) is having himself a spring. Here is the current projected array:

COL                Sv  IP  xERA WHIP  Dom  Cmd HR/9 BPV R$  ADP
============       == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== === === === 
Hawkins            25  44  3.85 1.25  5.7  2.6  0.6  68  -7 271
Ottavino            7  73  3.28 1.25 ...

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