13 career starts: 72.2 innings, 57 hits, 53 K's, 23 BB's, 1.10 WHIP, 27 ER's, 3.33 ERA, .217 BABIP, 14 HR's (1.8/9 iinings), 53 K's.
He gives up a .460 BABIP on line drives, but so does the world. On GB's it is .273. Weirdly, on FB's it is only .038. He's allowed 12 fly ball hits, 9 of them flying out of the park.
13 career stars isn't a bad place to begin to evaluate what he's got. And it certainly isn't bad. Even though he gives up some fly balls and doesn't rack up tons of K's, he still isn't bad.
Over his career, excluding BB's, 19.3% of his faced batters have K'ed. 28.1% had hit ground balls, 32.1% have hit fly balls, and 20.4% have hit line drives. Lefty Smyly? 25.6%, 27.6%, 31.1% and 15.6%.
He threw 23 strikes that elicted no swing last night (Paxton has thrown 11, 26 and 18 in his three gems), He's fooling some folks.
The knock against him: He gives up FB's and doesn't K 8 guys a game. Fair enough, but not many teams are throwing lefty #4's that are any better than Miranda.
His career starts (Innings rounded and ER's): 6/2, 5/3, 6/3, 4/3, 6/4, 6/0, 6/0, 7/2, 4/3, 5/1, 5/2, 6/4, 7/0.
6 quality starts, not counting the 5/1 and 5/2 games.
He doesn't pitch you out of games and he often enough shuts the other bats down.
He's been worth 1.2 WAR in those 13 starts.
He'll do.