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Straily proving to be valuable commodity
- Updated: August 24, 2016
CINCINNATI — Heading into the All-Star break, Reds starter Dan Straily was looking like a bargain.
Picked up off the waiver wire five days before the start of the regular season, Straily worked his way from the bullpen to the rotation and gave the team 101 1/3 innings over 16 starts with a 4.35 ERA, which was ballooned by one bad start at the end of June.
Now eight starts into the second half, Straily doesn’t just look like a bargain, he looks like an outright highway robbery. With six dominant innings in Tuesday’s 3-0 win over the Rangers at Great American Ball Park, Straily lowered his second-half ERA to 1.98 over 50 innings, second only to the Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks in the National League. In doing so, Straily’s season ERA dropped to 3.57.
“I’ve just always been a second-half pitcher,” Straily said. “I’ve always gotten stronger as the year went on. It’s just about maintaining the same work between starts and staying focused, because a lot of times, I feel like guys just kind of see the end and don’t focus all the way through to the end of the season. That’s just something I never want to fall into. I just always want to continue getting better.”
To that end, Straily credits his …
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