Adam Conley’s 2018 didn’t go as planned, but it still came as a pleasant surprise. He didn’t make the team out of spring training, but he pitched well in AAA, and the team called him up to join the relief corps in May and for good. The 28-year-old would thrive in relief as his fastball would jump to 95.7 mph on average last season, almost six mph higher than 2017 as a starter. Consequently, he was much harder to hit and his swinging-strike rate jumped 4.9 percent leading to immediate success.
Conley would register a 2.