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Notinhalloffame names Jonathan Loaisiga the 2021 Middle Reliever of the Year

Notinhalloffame names Jonathan Loaisiga the 2021 Middle Reliever of the Year
21 Oct
2021
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The process continues.

We here are Notinhalloffame.com have plans to create our own set of post-season awards, which we will look back and retroactively present from 1901 on.  That will take a while, but it has never stopped us before!

Our awards are not be league specific.

Now it is time for our 2021 positional awards.

We will be awarding a positional player of the year, but not only that, offer up the runner-up and second runner-up, meaning that we will have First, Second and Third All-MLB players.

Let’s work our way around the diamond and award the best of the best in Baseball!

Please note that with Middle Relievers, we will be naming a Middle Reliever of the Year, three Second Team and three Third Team Middle Relievers.  

Middle Reliever of the Year (First Team All-MLB): Jonathan Loaisiga, New York Yankees.  3.3 bWAR, 2.4 fWAR, 9-4 Record, 18 Holds, 2.17 ERA, 57 Games, 70.2 IP, 69 SO, 4.31 SO/BB, 1.018 WHIP, 2.58 FIP.

Loaisiga won this narrowly, and we could have made cases (and did) for any of the Middle Relievers we named to the Second Team.  The Nicaraguan reliever was sixth this season in the AL in WPA and third in cWPA.

Second Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Blake Treinen, Los Angeles Dodgers.  2.4 bWAR, 1.8 fWAR, 6-5 Record, 32 Holds, 1.99 ERA, 72 Games, 72.1 IP, 85 SO, 3.40 SO/BB, 0.982 WHIP, 2.88 FIP.

Treinen led the NL in Holds, and was the closest in our eyes to supplanting Loaisiga.  Treinen’s value as the Dodgers’ top bullpen Pitcher was shown by the Dodgers success, and he finished tenth in NL in cWPA.

Second Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Andrew Chafin, Chicago Cubs & Oakland Athletics.  2.9 bWAR, 1.4 fWAR, 2-4 Record, 22 Holds, 1.83 ERA, 71 Games, 68.2 IP, 64 SO, 3.37 SO/BB, 0.932 WHIP, 2.98 FIP.

Chafin was one of the many Cubs stars jettisoned off, and although the team he landed in, Oakland, did not make the playoffs, Chafin did his job and had the best season of his eight-year career.

Second Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Chad Green, New York Yankees.  2.4 bWAR, 1.6 fWAR, 10-7 Record, 18 Holds, 3.12 ERA, 71 Games, 83.2 IP, 99 SO, 5.82 SO/BB, 0.884 WHIP, 3.59 FIP.

Green gives the Yankees two All-MLB Middle Relievers, after recording his best year since 2017.

Third Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Garrett Whitlock, Boston Red Sox.  2.4 bWAR, 1.6 fWAR, 8-4 Record, 14 Holds, 1.96 ERA, 46 Games, 73.1 IP, 81 SO, 4.76 SO/BB, 1.205 WHIP, 2.84 FIP.

The Red Sox rookie had a nice debut, quickly becoming the best middle reliever on the team.

Third Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Tyler Rogers, San Francisco Giants.  2.4 bWAR, 1.3 fWAR, 7-1 Record, 31 Holds, 2.22 ERA, 80 Games, 81.0 IP, 81 SO, 4.23 SO/BB, 1.074 WHIP, 3.28 FIP.

Rogers just qualified, as he did finish 18 Games with 13 Saves, but was not the finisher in 75% of his Games.  Notably, this is the second year in a row that Rogers led the NL in Games Pitched.  Rogers also finished eighth in WPA.

Third Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Luke Jackson, Atlanta Braves.  2.3 bWAR, 0.6 fWAR, 2-2 Record, 33 Holds, 1.98 ERA, 71 Games, 63.2 IP, 70 SO, 2.41 SO/BB, 1.162 WHIP, 3.66 FIP.

In his seventh year in the Majors, Jackson had his best year by far, proving to be one of the many potent arms in the Braves bullpen.

Last modified on Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:54
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