10 pitchers who have surprised in 2015
By Jason Evans
If you are going to have a successful season as a team you need unexpected contributions from all sorts of players. It can’t just be one guy carrying the load. Just ask Lebron James.
In baseball, teams get contributions some years from over 40 guys. Sometimes you need a surprise or two to help push through and make that postseason run.
In this space, we are going to look at ten of the most surprising pitching performances of the 2015 baseball season as we are under a month to go in the regular year.
Some of these players took the next step in their development and reached heights that weren’t expected. Others had careers left for dead only to come back this year and contribute in an unexpected way for their club.
They say pitching and defense win championships and with the decline of offense in baseball right now, that certainly holds true.
Winning teams need aces, but they also need pitchers who can keep you in games and may be on that magic carpet ride kind of year that helps get them into the world series. It just takes one guy to seize a role or take an opportunity and just run with it.
Everyone likes top 10 lists, so here are 10 of the most surprising pitching performances during the 2015 season.