May 18, 2015

Miller on Top

Shelby Miller caused Max Scherzer‘s time atop the NL Cy Young Tracker leader board to be short lived. Miller’s shutout of the Marlins on Sunday promoted him to the top spot in Tom Tango tracker points. Miller leads Scherzer by 0.4 points. Max leads in innings and strikeouts, but Miller allowed fewer earned runs and won one more game. A.J. Burnett comes in fourth after his stellar effort on Sunday.

In previous seasons, Miller tended to induce about the same number of fly balls and ground balls. This season, he’s not only inducing many more ground balls, batters are hitting few line drives. It’s a big reason the opposition is hitting just .156 against Miller.

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