Daniel Hudson came over from Toronto (in a deadline trade this past July which sent minor league pitcher Kyle Johnston to the Blue Jays) with a 3.00 ERA, a 4.19 FIP, 23 walks, and 48 strikeouts over 45 games and 48 innings pitched, and he put up a 1.44 ERA, a 3.53 FIP, four walks, and 23 Ks in 24 games and 25 IP for the Washington Nationals in the regular season.
Hudson saved six games between late July and the end of September, with Nationals’ closer Sean Doolittle down for a time in mid-August, and he picked up four more during the club’s run to the World Series, as the reliever put up a 3.