Through his first 19 games and 22 2⁄3 innings pitched in the majors last season, Ryne Harper, who was up and down between the big leagues and Triple-A throughout the year, put up an 0.79 ERA, a 2.38 FIP, six walks, 18 Ks, and a .132/.193/.171 line against.
Harper, 32, was acquired by the Washington Nationals in a late January 2020 trade with the Minnesota Twins, and his manager, Davey Martinez, talked in an early August Zoom call this past summer about how the reliever was doing what he’d done to that point.