A popular Top 25 SP pick in the preseason, Kyle Hendricks hasn't fulfilled his end of the bargain, most recently going 4.0 IP, 4 ER, 4 Hits, 3 BBs, 3 Ks against the Cardinals last night. That's two straight clunkers, raising his ERA to 4.09 for the year with a 3.06 BB/9. Now, before those two clunkers was a six game stretch of 1.96 ERA, though looking through those outings displays more of the same: 3.87 xFIP, 86.6% LOB rate, .250 BABIP, 32.0% hard contact and just a 48.5% groundball rate, which is much lower than we expect from Hendricks. And this is when he was producing! He's going to be taking a significant hit in rankings later today as he's the latest of the premium starting pitchers to disappoint owners.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
