July 10, 2017
Milwaukee Brewers – Jared Hughes picked up his second 7th inning hold in as many days on Sunday and has pitched his way on to the Milwaukee hierarchy. The former Pirate has a significantly better ERA and WHIP than Carlos Torres (2.92/1.19 vs 4.37/1.54), who may be wearing down after pitching in the 2nd most games of any reliever in the first half.
Updated hierarchy: Knebel | Barnes | Hughes.
Philadelphia Phillies – The Phillies almost never win, which makes it a little harder to say this for certain, but it appears that Hector Neris has reclaimed the 9th inning. That’s where he pitched yesterday — following Pat Neshek and Joaquin Benoit, who got the 7th and 8th, respectively — and the young righty seems to have rediscovered his control and his splitter, posting relatively good numbers over his past six apperances (3.00 ERA, 8 Ks vs 1 BB). We’ll remove his asterisk as we head into the second half.
Updated hierarchy: Neris | Neshek | Benoit.
Los Angeles Angels – Bud Norris picked up his second save since returning from the DL on Sunday, tossing a perfect inning. Mike Scioscia seems to have every intention of using him as his exclusive closer after a few weeks of uncertainty, so we’ll remove his asterisk as well. Also, Cam Bedrosian got the 8th inning yesterday, the second straight time he’s pitched just ahead of Norris. He moves up to the primary set-up role.
Updated hierarchy: Norris | Bedrosian | Hernandez.
