No, not Bobby Abreu. Winston Abreu, who broke into the major leagues in 2006 with the Baltimore Orioles at age 29, currently has an ERA of 3.24 with the Washington Nationals. This season, he’s striking out around ten batters per nine innings. He’s given up only six hits and two walks in his 8 1/3 innings pitched resulting in a WHIP of less than one. So far he’s looked like a solid pitcher coming out of the Nationals’ bullpen. On the contrary to the all right handed pitchers, he’s holding the opposing batting average of lefties to .174 as opposed to .286 to righties in his career. He has fifteen career strikeouts, twelve of them being right handed hitters. Based on these numbers in his early career, Abreu is not necessarily a specialist pitcher out of the bullpen. He holds lefties to a low batting average and strikes out righties.
This season, minus the game that he lost, his ERA is 1.17 and the game he had a loss for, the only gave up two runs against his former team. Sure he’s still early in his major league career, but from what he’s shown so far this season he is a pitcher to keep an eye on.
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