Devin Williams came to New York last winter with a 1.83 career ERA and plenty of high hopes . It didn’t quite go as planned, since he then went and posted a bloated 4.79 mark with the Yankees, losing the closer’s job for part of the season in the process. Our most advanced science and technology tells us that his New York ERA was 2.6 times higher than his Milwaukee ERA, and that is, of course, bad.

It’s surely not what the Yankees were hoping for when they traded Nestor Cortes and future NL Rookie of the Year finalist Caleb Durbin, and it’s definitely not the kind of platform year Williams wanted headed into his first trip to free agency.

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But there’s more than one way to get to a bad ERA. There’s the kind where you earned every bit of it, where there’s really

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