Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler enjoyed a breakout campaign last year, thriving in the regular season before excelling in front of a national audience on baseball’s biggest stage.
In 24 games (23 starts), Buehler went 8-5 with a 2.62 ERA, 3.04 FIP and 0.96 WHIP over 137.1 innings pitched. Those efforts earned him a third-place finish in National League Rookie of the Year voting.
The 24-year-old followed up with an even better performance in the postseason, pitching to a 3.80 ERA and 0.85 WHIP over 23.2 innings (four starts). Included in that was a dominant outing over the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the World Series, to which he logged seven shutout innings against MLB’s top-ranked offense.