I've given a lot of talk to the "Power Quads" but there's a secondary group of young arms that are making me super excited as well, with Dylan Bundy leading the charge. After his 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 Hits, 1 BBs, 3 Ks start last night, Bundy is now holding an absurd 1.37 ERA and 0.99 WHIP, after facing the Jays twice and Red Sox twice. Pretty impressive stuff that gets even better: He's holding both the third highest soft contact rate at 29.7% and third lowest hard contact rate at 16.2%. Holy Wade Boggs' Mustache! This guy is legit! Yeaaaaaahhhhh. This is going to be a weird blurb because after being so into Bundy last year and loving him in drafts this season, I feel like I have to be the one now to tell people to hit the brakes. Funny how that works. I've watched a good amount of Bundy and there are two problems I have with the fella to make me think he can be a sturdy #3 for your team through the year: He makes a ton of mistakes that aren't getting punished like they should (such as Sliders elevated inside the zone or Fastballs peeling back to the middle of the plate) and he still shows serious endurance questions later in innings. Then of course we need to consider that he threw 109 innings last year and there's no way the Orioles are going to push him over 180 this year. None. And that's assuming he avoids all the injuries he's had in the past. What I'm getting at here is that I'm loving Bundy thus far - how could you not? - but I'm totally in sell high mode if people consider him Top 30 now. I'll have him mid 30s on Monday and would be surprised if I pushed him close to Top 25 this year.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
