After a season where their relievers flirted with a historically bad level of inadequacy, the bar can’t have been set all that high for the 2020 version of the Washington Nationals’ bullpen.
Through the first 15 games last year, the Nats’ bullpen was in complete disarray. As a group, they held an MLB-worst 7.83 ERA. Only two of the ten relievers to pitch for the team at that point had an ERA under 5.60, with Trevor Rosenthal’s 40.50 ERA the worst of the bunch.
In the same number of games this year, the team’s relief corps has managed to show some respectability with a 4.