Hill/Wood/Kershaw have three things in common

♦ July 7, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

Two are obvious. They are all left handed. They are all Dodgers.

But did you know that over the last fourteen days they are also the three best pitchers in the NL?

Fangraphs tells us, this is so: (this snapshot only worked if viewed on July 7th, 2017)

Before the snapshot changes, this is what the NL starting pitching leaderboard looks like for the split of the past fourteen days when run on July 7th, 2017

Name Team WAR GS IP K/9 BB/9
Clayton Kershaw Dodgers 1.2 3 20 13.95 2.25
Rich Hill Dodgers 0.9 3 21 11.57 1.29
Alex Wood Dodgers 0.9 3 19 11.84 3.32
Michael Wacha Cardinals 0.8 3 17.2 11.72 2.04
Max Scherzer Nationals 0.8 2 13 12.46 1.38
Adam Wainwright Cardinals 0.7 3 18.1 10.31 1.96
Patrick Corbin Diamondbacks 0.6 3 17.1 9.87 2.6
Jacob deGrom Mets 0.6 2 15 11.4 1.2
Jimmy Nelson Brewers 0.6 3 19 12.79 1.89

Isn’t that beautiful?

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