{"playerId":2887,"percentChange":0.2,"averageDraftPosition":260,"percentOwned":0.5,"playerRaterSEASON":0.3,"playerRater7DAY":2.1,"mostRecentNews":{"news":"Nicasio gave up three runs on five hits and two walks while striking out six Dodgers over four innings Wednesday.","spin":"Although the Rockies led for most of this game, Nicasio did not pick up the win because he couldn't make it to the fifth inning. He needed 92 pitches to get through four, and he has only lasted more than five innings in one start this year. His next turn in the rotation will come against the Yankees on Tuesday.","date":"Thu May 2"},"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":0.4,"playerRater15DAY":0.6,"positionRank":95}