Just ahead of the Thursday night deadline to tender contracts to arbitration eligible players, I thought I should take my first (and possibly last) look through the Crystal Ball at Oriole reliever Matt Albers. Before the 2010 season, I was still a supporter of Albers. I loved his stuff and thought he would eventually learn to control it. I was wrong. After a horrid April, I was the last one left to leap from the Albers bandwagon.However, it would be wrong to think that Albers didn't do some good things over the last three seasons. Here's some of his stats from FanGraphs.com:Season W L G IP K/9 BB/9 HR/9 BABIP GB% HR/FB ERA FIP xFIP2008 3 3 28 49.0 4.78 4.04 0.73 .258 53.2 % 7.5 % 3.49 4.60 5.022009 3 6 56 67.0 6.58 4.84 0.40 .355 48.4 % 4.5 % 5.51 3.92 4.702010 5 3 62 75.2 5.83 4.04 0.71 .305 56.5 % 8.7 % 4.52 4.24 4.46As you can see, his FIP was respectable and his ...
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