DENVER—In 2018 Kyle Freeland‘s fourth place NL Cy Young Award finish led the Colorado Rockies to the NLDS. In 2019, he’s had a rough start.
Finishing with the best single-season ERA in Rockies history at 2.85, Freeland is already at 5.84 this year. He has allowed an NL-high 29 earned runs thus far which is 45 percent of the total 64 he allowed last year. For reference he’s thrown just 22 percent of the innings he did last year to this point, 44.2 vs 202.1.
The good news for the Rockies is his April ERA last season was more or less the same as this year’s.