Padres bullpen ranks among NL leaders; Phillies relievers seek improvement.
are obligated to view the Philadelphia Phillies as rivals, despite the 2,400 miles between them and playing in a different division.
The Padres led the Phillies by 6 1/2 games going into Friday night’s game, so give A.J. Preller the nod over fellow Cornell alum Dombrowski in this duel between big payrolls, though in fairness, it wasn’t until December 2020 that Dombrowski took this job. Win Probability Added attempts to quantify the total impact a pitcher’s batters have on his team’s win expectancy relative to league average. Here, per FanGraphs, the Pads place third — 12 spots ahead of the last-place Phils.
If there’s an MVP in this Pads-Phils race, it’s the MVP of San Diego’s bullpen to date: Nabil Crismatt, the Colombian changeup artist who’s brilliant at reading hitters. Crismatt throws a changeup more than half of the time, enhancing a fastball that averages. Into the current series he took a 1.35 ERA with no home runs allowed, one year after allowing 10 homers.
In WPA, where Crismatt’s total more than doubles team runner-up Hill, Fritz’s relief corps trails only two other NL clubs, the Cardinals and Brewers.Because the five Pads teams that reached the postseason all placed first or second in that NL list, and the franchise’s most recent club to post a winning 162-game season, the 2010 squad, a 90-game winner, led the 30-team big leagues.
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