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4 reasons Nathan Eovaldi will be vital to Yankees' 2016 rotation

Yankees' right-hander Nathan Eovaldi won 14 games last season, a team-high. That doesn't mean he was a team-best.

Eovaldi's 4.20 ERA was fourth among starters in 2015, his win total buoyed by the second-highest run support (7.17 runs/game) in the American League. A season after allowing the most hits in baseball (223), his hits per nine innings actually increased a tick, from 10.1 to 10.2. Not what they hoped, but maybe not surprising, since he had come from the NL, a weaker-hitting league.

Eovaldi was also on the disabled list all of September, missing the most important part of the season for New York when the team tumbled in the standings and had to settle for a Wild Card berth that resulted in a 3-0 whooping by the Houston Astros.