Today, I’ll share my thoughts and methodology on projecting These are close to what he posted in 2019, but you might notice if you’re doing the math that I’m forecasting a decline in IP/GS, from 6.0 last season to 5.7 this year. There’s just too much downside for a mediocre strikeout guy at Soroka’s price.We hoped you liked reading 2020 Pod Projections: Mike Soroka by Mike Podhorzer!Please support FanGraphs by becoming a member.

It shouldn’t be surprising, as he allowed a higher than average rate of liners, and a high rate of grounders, both of which fall for hits much more often than fly balls and pop-ups. Website admin will know that you reported it.



Soroka wasn't quite as effective as in his Opening Day start, but he exited the game with a chance to win after tossing 82 pitches -- 49 for strikes -- in 5.1 frames. He'll aim to be ready to pitch again early on in the 2021 campaign if all goes well. Pitching: © Copyright 2010-2020 FantasyPros.com 12:51 am ETI agree that CBS Sports can send me the "Fantasy Baseball Today Newsletter" newsletter.
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Major League Leaders Soroka’s line drive rate was a bit inflated last season, but batters have far more control over that mark than pitchers.


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It’s more of an acknowledgement of how difficult it is to maintain any skill that’s so much better than the rest of the league than it is a knock on Soroka’s control. Soroka suffered a torn right Achilles tendon in Monday's game against the Mets and will miss the rest of the season. LU=Lineup. So essentially, one season’s worth of LD% is relatively meaningless, and we should expect that to decline back toward league average. Mike Soroka daily MLB projections and fantasy value for probable starts in next 7-10 days. Braves' Mike Soroka suffers torn Achilles tendon, is out for the season from cbssports.com at 8/4/2020 3:03:00 AM Mike Soroka Suffers Season-Ending Achilles …

This is no surprise, as ZiPS regresses the luck metrics less toward the league average, as it assumes a higher percentage of the gap is skill, whereas Steamer much more heavily regresses those metrics toward the average. Steamer is way out on an island in HR/9 because it’s fully regressing that HR/FB rate, whereas I’m giving Soroka some slight credit for the potential to own some HR/FB rate suppression skill.



Want to know more about Mike Soroka fantasy statistics and analytics? Ending 2019 with a 3.45 FIP and .280 BABIP, projections for this season (just imagine like it was still an 162-game season) would have put him at a 4.06 FIP and .302 BABIP.



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