The Orioles brought Koji Uehara back on a one-year contract last season, making him the team's best reliever but (1) not giving him the closer's job (he totaled exactly 0 saves) and (2) giving him less money than Kevin Gregg got.Koji rewarded the team by not only staying healthy, but being his usual awesome self, posting a 1.72 ERA, 2.56 FIP, and 2.45 xFIP. Uehara struck out 11.9 betters per nine, while only walking 1.5 for the Birds - the man would be nearly unbeatable if he didn't give up so many flyballs (and, therefore, home runs). That last part was an issue after he was dealt to Texas - in a move that gave the O's good value but which I didn't like in principle- as his home run per flyball rate more than doubled to 25% and he gave up a homer about every 3-4 innings. Still, with his 23 K:BB ratio for the Rangers (not a typo - 23!), his xFIP there was 2.03 despite an ERA over 4.I wrote about Koji's ability to generate whiffs despite only throwing 88-89 mp...
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