Jake Newberry Fantasy Stats

Kansas City Royals reliever Jake Newberry was called upon to put out the fire in the third inning of Wednesday's shellacking by the Astros, and he did escape a jam by only allowing a sacrifice fly. Unfortunately, Michael Brantley put one in the seats off him in the next inning, and that now makes three straight appearances where the reliever has given up a long ball. Newberry has allowed four home runs in his last 5 2/3 innings pitched, and that's brought his ERA up over 5.00. The worst news is that he's actually gotten lucky so far by stranding a whopping 90 percent of runners that he's inherited this year, so his FIP is actually over a run higher. With KC's bullpen in shambles, there are tons of opportunities for youngsters like Newberry to move into more important roles, but he's not going to have much of a future if he can't keep the ball in the yard.