Berrios had us worried for awhile, but he ended up with a rather valuable fantasy season considering his surrounding circumstances. Berrios won 50 percent of his starts, which is outstanding considering he played for a last place team which won 74 games all season. He began the season with a phenomenal April in which he won four of his first seven starts never allowing more than two earned runs in any of them. He came back to Earth against Philadelphia where he allowed eight earned runs and then went on to have a rough close to the first half which saw him allow 11 homers over his last 8 starts before the break. Berriors sliced more than a full run off his 4.01 first half ERA by stepping up his strikeout rate nearly five full percentage points and ceased hitting batters as 12 of the 13 batters he hit in 2024 came before the break. The 30+ homers on the season predestined him to a higher ERA as only Robbie Ray has pitched to an ERA below 3.50 despite allowing 30 or more homers in recent seasons. Berrios is no longer the strikeout guy he was in his earlier years, but he is fifth in innings worked since 2021 trailing only Nola, Webb, Wheeler, and Burnes. We would be asking a lot of Berrios to go out and win another 50% of his starts for a team that is likely going to be a non-contender once again, but he hasn't missed a start in eons and you just cannot buy that type of volume these days. If you take some pitching upside risks early in the draft, Berrios is an excellent volume play to help offset the earlier risks. Read Past Outlooks