{"playerId":2887,"percentChange":-0.3,"averageDraftPosition":260,"percentOwned":0.6,"playerRaterSEASON":1.4,"playerRater7DAY":3,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Nicasio improved to 4-1 Sunday, as he spun six scoreless innings. He gave up just three hits and struck out five.","spin":"This was a nice bounce-back game for him, after getting knocked around by the Cubs in his previous start. Nicasio was removed after throwing just 89 pitches, will look to continue pitching well in a rematch with the Giants in his next start.","date":"Sun May 19"},"fullName":"Juan Nicasio","seasonOutlook":{"outlook":"Injuries have threatened Nicasio's once-promising career; he had his 2011 cut short by a fractured neck vertebra suffered when he was struck in the head by a line drive that August, then his 2012 ended on June 2 when he twisted his left knee fielding a ground ball, necessitating microfracture surgery. Nicasio's rehabilitation has reportedly gone well and he claims his velocity is back to its prior 93.7 mph career average; he is expected to grab one of the several vacancies in the Rockies' rotation if true. However, when healthy last season, his walk rate rose to a troubling level, 3.41 per nine innings (compared to 2.26 in 2011), keeping him from being as attractive an NL-only sleeper as he was a year ago at this time. Understandably, he has more to prove in March to earn those prospective owners' trust.","seasonId":2013,"date":"Thu Feb 21"},"playerRater30DAY":2.1,"playerRater15DAY":2.4,"positionRank":71}