Updating the Top 100: Raisel Iglesias

Dec 3 2019 by Red Reporter

 
Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

The reality is that we probably saw this coming. Raisel Iglesias had a remarkably lucky season in 2018. He had set career bests in ERA and saves, but the underlying numbers had some red flags: Iglesias’s number of surrendered home runs more than doubled from 2017 to 2018, while his strikeout rate dropped by about 10%. The luck came mainly through sequencing, specifically that 10 of his 12 allowed homers in 2018 were solo shots.

In 2019, the piper came...

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