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Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0
The only thing Britton has going for him is he pitches in the one inning a night in less than half the team's games, beating up on the bottom of the order the majority of the time. He's faced the 6-8 hitters more times than any other part of the order. Not really impressive when you're dominating the bottom of the lineup.
But context be damned.
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His sinker was voted the best pitch in baseball and it leads to an 80% ground ball rate.
Britton has been a full time closer the last 2 years (started midway in 2014) His FIP last year was 2.01 this year 1.94 better than Rivera every year except Riveras first full season in 96. So try again on that.