Julian Fernández has a minor league ERA of 2.61 this year. He hasn’t given up a run in his last 13 minor league appearances.
His Triple-A ERA is literally perfect.
Let’s call it how it is: since the July 30 trade deadline, Colorado relievers have posted the third-highest ERA (5.26), third-highest xFIP (4.70), and third-worst bWAR (0.4) in all of baseball. The Rockies are 13 games out of the second wild card spot and if it appeared they would catch the Padres, the front office would have likely held on to Mychal Givens at the trade deadline.