When talking about Michael Pineda, the one thing that jumps out the most is his ability to rack up strikeouts. After all, his 10.61 strikeouts per nine innings (K/9) from 2016 ranked sixth among qualified starters. Unfortunately, the other thing that jumps out about the right-hander has been his frustrating inconsistency.

Last season got off to probably the worst possible start. He posted a 6.33 ERA through 27 innings along with a .406 wOBA allowed. His 5.29 FIP was over a full run lower than his traditional ERA, but that doesn't take away from his issue of keeping the ball in the yard.

Pineda surrendered a 34.1% hard-hit rate and 38.1% fly-ball rate last April, which led to a homer-run-to-fly-ball ratio of 21.9% -- the fifth-highest among this group of 31 starters. This is something he'll need to figure out quick since he calls the homer-friendly Yankee Stadium home.

Outside of all those strikeouts, the right-hander's numbers didn't look great (6-12 record, 4.82 ERA, 1.35 WHIP), but he produced a 3.79 FIP and threw a career-high 175.2 innings. There's definitely some upside to him since he was the league's unluckiest qualified starter last year, but a solid April could do him a lot of good en route to potentially putting it all together.