Best skill sets through May

Rather than return to team situations this week, the column looks at the top skill sets through May and will return to team situations next week. After filtering the skills, these columns largely write themselves.

The first grouping is just the best of the best pure K%-BB% (over 30%) through May:

K%-BB% 30%SVHDIPERAxERAWHIPK%K-BB%HR/9
Miller, Mason OAK11024.01.881.510.7953%45%0.0
Estrada, Jeremiah SD1216.10.552.160.5548%41%0.6
Strahm, Matt PHI L0522.10.812.440.7639%35%0.0
Cruz, Fernando CIN01024.14.072.081.1148%35%0.4
Hader, Josh HOU L7025.03.962.371.0841%31%1.1
Smith, Cade CLE1524.21.822.290.9338%31%0.0

Mason Miller (RHP, OAK) has been torching batters all season while closing for the Oakland Athletics. Miller is overqualified to use one...

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