Richard Bleier Traded to Miami

[OFFNY]

44 minutes ago, makoman said:

 

Actually, it’s Bleier who has been used primarily in low-leverage situations in his career. 465 career PA's at low-leverage, 144 PA's at medium-leverage, and 127 PA's at high-leverage. He has been excellent at high-leverage however, posting a 567 OPS against (vs. 652 at medium-leverage, and 744 at low-leverage.)

Fry has a similar career amount in high leverage, in 116 PA's. But he is just 94 at medium-leverage and 216 low-leverage, so he has pitched to a much higher proportion at high-leverage. But while Bleier did his best work at high leverage, Fry was the opposite: 754 OPS against high-leverage, 748 against medium-leverage, and 668 against low-leverage. So Bleier has stepped it up in more important situations (if that's a thing), or maybe over time it will even out.

Edit: All of that information is from Baseball-Reference, and I don't know if that's the best place to measure leverage.

 

o

 

Well, it's better than just making it up and hoping that nobody else checks.

 

o

[SteveA]

Bleier put on the DL for a "minor strain on his elbow in his elbow bicep" (wording from a MLB.com reporter, not me)