Jesse Crain was amongst the absolute worst strikeout relievers last season and amongst the best middle relievers due to 12 Ws and great ratios (2.71/1.13) in 80 innings.
Very few people would have thought Crain could repeat those ratios without missing more bats (25 Ks and 29 BBs in those 80 innings.)
After 6 weeks, the vast majority of those people who thought missed bats would be necessary to continue his relieving value are wrong. Crain has struckout 17 in 15.2 innings – with 7.47 ERA and 1.79 WHIP.
If those currently-wrong forecasters are victims of a bad sample, then those Ks should presage better performance going forward, and you would be wise to grab Crain as a throw-in in another trade.
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