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10 hours agoBlue Jays grades at the quarter mark: Relief pitchers
Blue Jays relievers show strong run prevention with elite FIP and xFIP, led by Louis Varland and Tyler Rogers early in the season.
Rogers is atypical of a modern reliever in many ways. He doesn't throw hard, averaging 83.5 m.p.h. with his sinker and 74.1 m.p.h. with his slider last season. Both were the slowest of their kind in MLB. Because he doesn't have electric stuff by way of velocity or movement, he doesn't strike batters out. Rogers' 16.1% strikeout rate ranked in the eighth percentile. And of course, the strangest aspect of all is his minus-61-degree arm angle, the lowest in baseball by far. (Hoby Milner's minus-4-degree slot is the second lowest, and the only other to come in at a negative angle.)