Paul Sporer’s Updated SP Rankings
by Paul Sporer
August 26, 2021
The blue bar represents the START of a new tier.
I generally don’t include IL’d guys. It’s especially precarious this late when guys could just be shutdown if they are on bad teams.
I view these as 2-3 week rankings given the volatility of pitching so I will include at least 1 and probably 2 more updates on the site before season’s end, but I am updating them regularly on our Patreon.
FYI: instead of updating the rankings in September, I started the Daily SP Chart.
SP Rankings Update
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Castillo, Manoah, and Fried all more than 10 spots ahead of Darvish?? I don’t understand. If heavily weighting recent performance then Logan Webb is much higher than 39.
Are you familiar w/how Darvish has been pitching since the crackdown? He’s not the same guy & fresh off the IL. I don’t really see 10 spots diff w/those guys as close to egregious. I like Webb a good bit, 39 feels perfectly fine.
Yeah we’re just ranking ice cream flavors but I’d be thrilled if someone offered me Darvish for any of Castillo, Manoah, or Fried. Darvish just has too long of a track record to think he’s permanently broken post crackdown.
Seeing such a clear delineation in HR rate pre- and post-crackdown plus just back from an injury is concerning enough for me to be a bit cautious w/him for the final 5 weeks. If he looks good tonight, I’ll probably move him 5-6 spots on the Patreon ranks, but I want to see 2-3 good ones w/some HR suppression before he’s back in the top 15
I can assure you the Jays would not trade Manoah for Darvish, this year or next year. And not because of age either.
Webb is a better pitcher than Wood. Wood never gets through the order a 3rd time