RELIEVERS: AL and NL West bullpens, 2015

For this last bullpen column of 2014, we take a quick look at the AL West and NL West pens for 2015. We start in Houston. Here are the BPIs (through August):

HOU              IP   Dom  Cmd HR/9  xERA  BPV  Clean/App  LI
============    ==== ==== ==== ==== =====  ===  ========= ==== 
Qualls          46.7  7.7  8.0  1.0  3.00  147    39/52   1.04
Sipp (L)        42.0 10.9  3.6  0.9  3.01  128    39/47   1.61
D.Downs (L)     31.3  6.6  1.6  0.0  4.41   33    27/30   1.05
Fields          51.3 11.6  3.9  0.4  3.36  138    33/51   1.01
Veras           36.3  9.2  1.7  1.0  4.10   44    21/36   0.81 (FA)

The Astros have really started to turn the corner. Three useful relievers emerged, old-timer Chad Qualls (RHP, HOU) was the closer and had a...

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