A month and a half of baseball is in the books, and Jason Vargas leads the majors in ERA.
That’s weird, man.
The Kansas City southpaw, who threw seven shutout innings last Thursday, now owns a 1.01 ERA in 44 u2154 innings, after coming into the season with a lifetime 4.18 ERA over more than 1,200 career frames. He's only allowed one home run this season, despite a 42.0% ground-ball rate, while his strand rate is above 87.0%.
But the veteran is more interesting than your basic star of Small Sample Size Theater (that's a thing, right?