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2015 Free Agent Starting Pitchers

So it's Scherzer, Lester, Shields and a whole lotta meh.

By Bradstick
Justin K. Aller

2015 MLB Free Agent Starting Pitchers: Earlier today Adam posted some thoughts on Justin Masterson and it got me thinking about the other free agent options the Rangers can consider to plug holes in the rotation.

This was generated using a custom leaderboard from FanGraphs.com and a list of upcoming free agents from MLBTradeRumors.com.

The data covers the cumulative stats from 2012 to 2014 and the MIXED WAR value is an average of FIP based WAR and RA9 based WAR from FanGraphs to blend the two concepts together.

EDIT: Ages have been updated to reflect their age for 2015 season

EDIT II: Selected Rangers starter stats added over the same period for comparison to the free agents

Name Age IP ERA FIP xFIP MIXED WAR ERA- FIP- xFIP- K/9 BB/9 HR/9 BABIP GB%
M. Scherzer 30 622.1 3.24 2.94 3.17 15.8 80 73 80 10.46 2.59 0.85 .302 36.5%
Y. Darvish 28 545.1 3.27 3.17 3.11 13.9 77 75 78 11.22 3.60 0.87 .295 41.6%
J. Shields 33 683.1 3.29 3.51 3.51 12.6 84 90 89 7.89 2.24 0.90 .295 46.3%
J. Lester 31 638.1 3.65 3.49 3.60 12.3 88 85 91 7.94 2.58 0.85 .303 45.6%
H. Kuroda 40 620.0 3.44 3.68 3.60 11.9 84 90 91 6.72 1.87 0.94 .281 48.7%
J. Peavy 34 566.1 3.70 3.93 4.07 9.3 91 97 103 7.52 2.35 1.11 .277 36.3%
D. Holland 28 425.1 3.77 3.87 3.87 7.6 88 91 96 7.60 2.56 1.10 .288 41.8%
F. Liriano 30 480.0 3.90 3.61 3.55 6.2 102 94 92 9.47 4.33 0.77 .290 49.6%
B. McCarthy 31 446.0 4.00 3.66 3.48 5.8 103 93 90 6.54 1.57 0.97 .317 48.2%
J. Hammel 32 433.2 3.94 4.07 3.86 5.6 99 103 98 7.62 2.78 1.12 .288 43.3%
E. Santana 32 585.0 4.06 4.27 3.86 5.2 106 110 98 7.28 2.69 1.25 .276 44.2%
M. Harrison 29 241.1 3.58 4.15 4.22 4.7 83 96 103 5.78 2.91 0.93 .292 48.8%
J. Masterson 30 528.0 4.62 3.94 3.83 4.1 120 102 96 8.01 3.97 0.73 .309 57.1%
A. Harang 37 527.1 4.08 4.09 4.44 3.9 109 110 116 6.91 3.35 0.94 .296 38.2%
C. Capuano 36 401.1 4.01 3.83 3.87 3.5 107 102 101 7.33 2.51 1.03 .304 41.8%
M. Perez 24 213.2 4.13 4.09 4.10 2.9 98 98 104 6.07 2.99 0.88 .306 49.3%
G. Floyd 32 246.2 4.01 4.33 4.02 2.9 97 105 100 7.81 3.21 1.17 .303 47.9%
C. Lewis 35 275.1 4.51 4.24 4.18 2.8 110 103 107 7.39 2.03 1.34 .318 33.0%
C. Villanueva 31 331.2 4.23 4.01 3.93 2.8 108 100 101 8.06 2.85 1.17 .296 39.2%
R. Vogelsong 37 478.0 4.12 4.02 4.15 2.5 117 114 109 7.08 2.97 0.94 .296 40.9%
P. Maholm 33 412.2 4.14 4.25 3.98 2.5 110 113 105 6.08 2.79 0.98 .297 51.8%
K. Kendrick 30 540.1 4.43 4.31 4.27 2.4 118 114 113 5.78 2.55 1.05 .292 46.8%
E. Volquez 31 545.2 4.24 4.15 4.16 2.0 119 116 110 7.52 4.17 0.82 .293 49.5%
W. Rodriguez 36 295.0 4.00 4.35 4.09 1.9 106 116 106 6.25 2.32 1.25 .278 46.3%
K. Correia 34 510.1 4.57 4.49 4.40 1.8 118 117 113 4.74 2.31 1.13 .301 46.1%
N. Tepesch 26 219.0 4.56 4.66 4.44 1.6 111 114 115 5.42 2.92 1.11 .287 43.9%
N. Martinez 25 140.1 4.55 4.94 5.24 0.7 113 123 138 4.94 3.53 1.15 .289 32.9%