Less than a month into the year, stats can be deceptive—especially for relief pitchers. Nevertheless, these bullpen arms have been the best of the best in the early going of the new campaign.
Three weeks into the season, almost nothing we’ve seen so far is real. Least real of all is reliever performance. Most of these guys have thrown fewer than a dozen innings and it would be borderline irresponsible to try to make predictions based on what they’ve done. So we won’t do that. But it can be fun to capture a snapshot of a moment, even if you don’t expect it to continue, so let’s immortalize this start to the season by power-ranking relievers.
. Well, he hasn’t allowed a walk in the eight innings he has pitched since then, and he has struck out 51.9% of the men he has faced. Kimbrel is 35 years old and pitching like he did at 22.Slaten has among the worst strikeout numbers of this group , but—underscoring how unreliable results are at this point—he is the only one who ranks in the top 10 in both FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference WAR. He is also averaging nearly two innings per appearance.Garrett entered the year with a career 7.
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