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The soft-tossing southpaw baffled hitters with his sinker in 2021, but 2022 has been baffling for different reasons.
In his first full season with the Miami Marlins in 2021, Richard Bleier was up to usual tricks, inducing lots of weak ground balls and a 2.95 ERA. In all but one of Bleier’s 7 big league seasons (2019), the Miami Beach native has finished the season with an ERA below 3.00.
Bleier’s 2021 saw him finish with career bests in game pitched (68), WHIP (0.