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What a Healthy José Urquidy Brings to the Houston Astros Rotation (and a Tangential Discussion on the Nature of Balance in Baseball)

The very very short answer is — just over two wins above replacement through a 162-game season. If you’re happy with that, you can stop right there and go on to your next article.

Urquidy has amassed 4.7 bWAR over 66 major league starts (and three relief appearances). For our purposes, I’ll eliminate his contribution for the bullpen games he played in. That leaves us with Urquidy racking up one win above replacement per 14 starts.

Remember also, it’s wins above replacement. In this case, wins above Ronel Blanco (who is tracking dead-on replacement level btw).