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Cleveland Indians 2015 pitching staff ranked second in Deserved Run Average

The world will never run out of ways to explain how amazing the 2015 pitching staff is.

Back in late-April, when Deserved Run Average (DRA) was first revealed, I did a quick rundown of how the new metric rated Cleveland Indians starting pitchers to that point. Now with the 2015 season finished, Baseball Prospectus has released team DRA year-end results, and it indicates what we all already knew--Indians pitching was awesome.

In its most simplistic form, DRA’s purpose is to take out as many variables as possible in determining for how many runs a pitcher "deserved" to be penalized.