Jhoulys Chacin, SP, Milwaukee Brewers
The slow start
Jhoulys Chacin’s first month with the Brewers didn’t at all go how he was hoping it would. While his 4.54 ERA didn’t look so terrible, the 5.50 SIERA was actually one of the worst in baseball. The right-hander put together a 46.4% ground-ball rate, but it was also accompanied by a 49.1% pull rate and 39.7% hard-hit rate.
Nearly walking as many hitters (11.0% rate) as he was striking out (12.9%) didn’t help, either.
The recovery
Through 23.1 innings, Chacin has shaved a full three runs off his April ERA, as it currently stands at a tidy 1.54 in May. His hard-hit rate allowed has gone down slightly to 37.5%, but his soft-hit rate has increased six percentage points.
It’s also worth noting that although his fly-ball rate has gone from 31.3% to 46.3%, his infield-fly rate has gone from 8.6% to 20.0% between April and May.
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