Finding Aces Part V: Veteran Luck Regression Candidates

It is important to maintain the fundamental rules of society. One of those rules being, respect your elders. Last week, I introduced luck regression candidates with less than 400 career innings pitched, and piggybacking off of that premise we must also account for our Restored Vets. In order to identify Restored Veteran pitchers who suffered from poor luck in 2019 I performed the following:

• Gathered all starting pitchers with over 50 innings pitched in 2019. Thanks, Fangraphs.
• Removed pitchers with less than 400 career innings pitched to isolate for Restored Vets.
• Sorted to find only pitchers whose ERA was 0.5 greater than one of FIP, xFIP, or SIERA.
• Eliminated any pitchers who did not have a metric under 4.5.
• Deleted any pitchers without a top 30 WAR season in the past 3 years.

The result? 9 pitchers. I’ve removed 4 of those for reasons noted at the bottom. The rest of the group is evaluated below: