Rick Porcello, SP, Detroit Tigers

by Tim Heaney on February 1, 2010 @ 00:00:00 PDT

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2010 Fantasy Baseball Projections

W	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
14	0	189	215	89	45	119	4.24	1.38

Rick Porcello's soaring groundball rate was his key to survival as a 20-year-old rookie. Don't forget he has the velocity to notch K's if he has to - or the team lets him take that approach. Drafters are pricing him at fair value. Beware the drop-off, though, given the strikeout evidence hasn't appeared yet - oh, and of course, his first-year workload.

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