The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.

Board tonight, comments in the AM!

• Very light group of dependables and Ashcraft maybe shouldn’t even be there as a rookie, but I love the matchup
• Love Warren but I’ll keep reminding to be careful w/the White Sox right now
• Summer of George!! Alexander is probably more a Win chase than actual good ratio play
• Holmes’ K-BB is now down to 9%!

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The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.

Board tonight, comments in the AM!

• Fried & Framber get great matchups to flourish with and Framber in particular needs it!
• Rasmussen has hit 6 IP in ea. of his L3 which is great and hopefully he can be a consistent 5+ down the stretch
• Lauer has quietly had SUCH a fantastic season
• Lodolo and Mize both have remarkably tough matchups in tough venues, I regret the 3-x on them and switched it to 2-x (I didn’t remake the board, but consider them both behind Priester, who also has a tough matchup).
• The 1-x group is really interesting, but there’s a lot of uncertainty
  • McLean is a rookie v. PHI
  • Darvish just hasn’t pitched much this yr so he’s still a little scary start-to-start (Gems in 2 of L3, though)
  • Bergert is an intriguing young arm getting the upstart White Sox, who I don’t blindly start against anymore
  • BAL still scares me enough to stop short of 3-x on Bello, but I did jump to 2-x as he’s been mostly great of late
  • And then Shohei is just such a low bet to get 5 IP

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8/26/25

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INJURIES/TRANSACTION NEWS

• Nathan Eovaldi injury news

MEATBALL DRAFT BY POSITION

• Correcting the record on Rafael Devers
• Outfield

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The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.

I know some of you use this for waivers so my apologies for the morning editions that render that usefulness moot. The target is always night before, but sometimes it ends up in the morning.

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The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.

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8/22/25

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2-START PITCHERS FOR WEEK 23

• Eduardo Rodriguez, at MIL, at LAD 1:30
• Brandon Pfaadt, at MIL, at LAD 1:30
• Tomoyuki Sugano, BOS, at SFG 4:10
• Walker Buehler, at BAL, PIT 7:14
• Tanner Bibee, TBR, SEA 9:24
• Shane Smith, KCR, NYY 12:01

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The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.

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8/21/25

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MEATBALL DRAFT BY POSITION

• Catcher
• First Base (ignore my comments about Devers re: 3B as he will almost ASSUREDLY not retain elig. there w/0 gms so far this yr and Matt Chapman locking 3B in SF… ty to commenter joncarlos for pointing that out to me!)
• Third Base

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The chart includes their performance for 2025, their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far, my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but it’s a much riskier stream for those spots.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more valuable focusing on roto.

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