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New Elias Sports Rankings

Link. Only Hammy, Kins, FX2, and Face are type A. Byrd, Murph, Cruz, Milly, Grilli, Eddie, and O'Day are all type B. It's a bullshit system that ranks Eddie and Grilli higher than CJ, IMO. Or maybe I'm just not getting how the ranking is done.

Here is how Keith Law determines relief pitchers, according to mlbtraderumors.com: RP: Total games (total relief appearances + 2 * total starts), IP (weighted slightly less than other categories), Wins + Saves, IP/H ratio, K/BB, ERA.

It’s a two-year survey, which explains why CJ is so poorly thought of by Elias. I’m too lazy to look up both years, but here are this year’s stats:

CJ: 49 appearances, 49.1 ip, 4 wins, 49.1 ip/45 hits, 51 ks/20 bb, 3.28 era

Eddie: 41 appearances, 33 ip, 1 win, 33 ip/ 32 hits, 17 ks/12 bb, 4.09 era

Of course, CJ had a down year last year, so that’s certainly why he isn’t considered a type A or B player. But, there’s little doubt which player is more valuable – Eddie-hating aside. CJ isn’t a free agent, so it doesn’t really matter. It’s a silly system though. Just saying.