ATLANTA -- Gabe Kapler came armed with a sheet of paper to the visitors' dugout Friday afternoon at SunTrust Park. He came with a point to make.
The paper read: "Vince Velasquez (3.65), Charlie Morton (3.65), Kyle Freeland (3.77), Zack Greinke (3.79) and David Price (3.90)." The pitchers not named Velasquez are four of the more highly regarded pitchers in baseball. The numbers next to their names represented their Fielding Independent Pitching. Kapler wanted to say that Velasquez (9-11, 4.59 ERA, including a 7.67 ERA in his last eight starts) has been better than the traditional numbers indicate.