STARTERS: BPV leaders, April 2013

Let's begin our monthly look at the starting pitchers who posted the best skills in the previous month.

Reference our setting the stage column for historical stats and skills by month and league.  

This April, NL starting pitchers posted much better surface stats than their AL counterparts due to a tiny bit of H% and S% help:

• April 2013 Baselines
  
  League  ERA   WHIP  |  Ctl  Dom  HR/9  GB%  |  H%   S%   hr/f  |  BPV
  ======  ====  ====  |  ===  ===  ====  ===  |  ===  ===  ====  |  ===
  AL      4.32  1.34  |  3.0  7.5   1.1  44%  |  31%  71%   12%  |   76
  NL      3.84  1.28  |  3.0  7.3   1.0  46%  |  29%  73%   12%  |   76
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  MLB     4.07  1.31  |  3.0  7.4   1.1  45% ...

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