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Ranking the Rockies: No. 10 Yohan Flande ... wait, what?

I assure you, there are no typos in that previous sentence.

Flande was worth a full win above replacement on the mound, according to Baseball-Reference, ranking behind only Jorge De La Rosa and Chad Bettis (more on them later in this series) among Rockies hurlers. Flande's performance—4.74 ERA, 5.7 K/9 and 3.3 BB/9 in 68u2153 innings—was good enough for a right-around-league-average 99 ERA+. The Flan Man provided the majority of his value out of the bullpen, posting a 3.60 ERA in 20 innings spanning nine appearances in the Rockies' swingman role.

Don't look now, but Flande has proved to be a serviceable—not great, good or really even average, but definitely serviceable—big league pitcher for two years running, putting up a 91 ERA+ in a decent 127u2153-inning sample size.