Zack Britton returned to his old, dominant self in his first full season in pinstripes this year.
After scuffling a bit—at least for his standards—in 2018, Britton pitched his way to a dominant 1.91 ERA across 66 appearances in 2019. His peripherals weren’t as dominant as you’d think (3.47 DRA, 3.74 FIP, 3.59 xFIP, 3.81 SIERA—so still pretty good) because of his career-high 13.1% walk rate (32 walks in 61 1/3 innings pitched).
You can kind of live with Britton’s high walk numbers and peripherals because he’s good at what he does… being an elite ground ball pitcher—so it’s okay if runners reach via walks if he’s just going to erase them with a ground ball.