The suspension of Jose Alvarado has cast the bullpen into an entirely different light. Long thought to be the Achilles’ heel of the team, they have actually been much better of late. Looking at several different statistics can put them into whatever context one wants to put them in.
For example, if you were a believer in WAR by position, Fangraphs has the team as the 6th best set of relief pitchers with 2.0 fWAR.* However, it doesn’t take much more than a button click to reset the filters with the ERA range and you see that they fall to the bottom third in the league with a collective relief ERA approaching 5.