2025 Player Outlook

Duran is an electric ninth inning arm, featuring overpowering fastball velocity (100.5 mph last season), not to mention an 88th percentile strikeout rate (28.9%), and does a pheomenal job avoiding the barrels of the opposition (98th percentile). However, despite that, he had a 6-9 record, and the team gave Griffin Jax 16 save opportunities over the course of the season. Duran had a rough go of things after the All-Sar break, but that elite dominant closer is in there as we saw before the Midsummer Classic (2.93 ERA, 0.98 WHIP). The team likely spreads out save opportunities again, but Duran should see the majority of those saves chances. Aside from saves, Duran should provide soild ratios, headlined by an excellent strikeout rate, easily putting him inside the top 10 players at his position.