Apart from some occasional DL time, Huston Street (RHP, LAA) has been one of the most reliable second-tier closers in baseball—at least until recently. Despite already tying a career-high four blown saves in 31 opportunities, nothing looks too amiss in Street's surface stats, which include a 2.78 ERA and an 8.1 Dom through 45 IP entering Monday. But Street's FpK has been down all year, sitting at 56 down from 64 averaged over the previous four seasons. Street has long relied on superb command of his secondary pitches, but this has escaped him in 2015, as seen in a 3.4 Ctl—and particularly lately, with 12 walks in his last 22 IP. Street's control had hidden a creeping, five-year-long velocity slide, which...
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