F/F SPOTLIGHT: Blake Snell

Blake Snell

Blake Snell (LHP, SD) hasn’t returned a $20 season since 2018, which is looking more and more like an outlier. He’s had a handful of injury issues, but nothing that would derail a career. However, he’s back to the $20 mark (albeit barely) so far in 2023. We’ll take a look at his 2023 and also try to diagnose why he’s been unable to repeat his 2018 success.

Let’s look at basic results and skills:

Basic result and skills

Year  IP   K    ERA   xERA  WHIP  K%   BB%  K-BB%  Vel   GB/LD/FB         
====  ===  ===  ====  ====  ====  ===  ===  =====  ====  ========           
2016   89   98  3.54  4.60  1.62  24%  13%    12%  93.5  37/27/36         
2017  129  119  4.04  4.59  1.33  22%  11%    11%  94.3  44/18/38         
2018 ...

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