Above all else, Major League Baseball celebrates relievers who have nasty, overpowering stuff. That’s not Dylan Floro. His average fastball velocity has perennially hovered around the league’s average for right-handers and his strikeout total has never quite eclipsed his innings total over the course of a single season. Even his physical stature—listed at 6’2”, 203 pounds—is merely “normal” relative to his peers.
Floro may not look like a dominant bullpen arm, but he’s performing like one in 2023. When he induced a double play to extinguish the Cleveland Guardians’ seventh-inning scoring threat on Saturday night, he had multiple reasons to rejoice.