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Josh Fleming, P

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Scouting report

Fleming neither threw enough innings nor was he on the big league active roster long enough to graduate, and so here he is as a major league-ready backend starter, a good example of how I value this sort of profile. He doesn't throw hard at all but his tailing fastball and slider do have a considerable amount of divergent lateral movement, and Fleming has pinpoint control of both. His changeup almost never, ever finishes in a hittable location, so even if a hitter contacts it, it's almost always driven into the ground (he boasted a 63% groundball rate). Perhaps some pitching-starved contenders would value him more highly than this, somewhere in the 45 FV tier, but I think Fleming ends up with a 1-to-1.5 WAR output. (Alternate site, MLB)

Name	Age	Lvl	Team	Level	G	GS	IP	ERA	K/9	BB/9	HR/9	FIP	xFIP	SIERA
Josh Fleming	28	A	SEA	mlb	25	3	31.1	4.02	4.9	4.0	0.9	4.76	4.87	4.96