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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 12th, 2024

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With the All-Star break on the horizon, feel free to use this comment section for any questions related to decisions going into the second half.


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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 11th, 2024

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports

If you didn’t see my chat today, I just wanted y’all to know that there was no chart yesterday because we lost internet for about 9 hours with a statewide outage for Spectrum service. Thankfully we avoided any bad weather here in Austin so in the grand scheme an afternoon and evening without the internet isn’t the end of the world.

For Thursday, we have some tough spots where you have to decide if chasing the win potential is worth the risk.

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Paul Sporer’s Baseball Chat – July 10th, 2024

Thanks for coming out!

Sorry for no SP Chart this morning, internet was out for about 9 hours yesterday in Texas

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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 9th, 2024

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Full notes will be back tomorrow night.

Keider Montero showed some flashes in a couple of extended outings (1 start in game 2 of a doubleheader and the other an extended relief appearance from the 2nd-6th innings) at the end of May and June with an 18% K-BB. He still had 9 ER in 9.7 IP thanks in large part to 3 HRs. He jumped into Casey Mize’s spot on July 3rd and did his best work yet against MIN: 6.3 IP/2 ER/4 Ks/1 BB. Still not exactly overpowering, but something to build upon going into this week’s 2-step.

I didn’t express a ton of confidence in him, putting him in the YOLO category on the 2-start board, but I came away impressed by his 6.3 IP of scoreless work on Monday night. He got ahead with a 76% first pitch strike rate (63% lg. avg) and posted a 36% Called Strike + Whiff rate (27% lg. avg), both figures were season bests for Montero. It certainly wasn’t enough to give him a full green light against LAD, but he’s on the radar now as a streamer option.

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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 8th, 2024

John Leyba-USA TODAY Sports

Not a lot to work with on Monday’s slate, but plenty of startable options on the 2-start board.

2-Start Rankings for the Week
RANK TYPE PITCHER MATCHUPS IP ERA WHIP K-BB
1 1 Zack Wheeler LAD/OAK 111.2 2.74 0.99 19%
2 1 Chris Sale at ARI/at SDP 99.2 2.71 0.91 28%
3 1 Zac Gallen ATL/TOR 67.2 3.06 1.11 19%
4 1 Logan Gilbert at SDP/at LAA 117.2 2.91 0.92 19%
5 2 Ryan Pepiot NYY/CLE 75.2 4.40 1.12 18%
6 2 Ronel Blanco MIA/TEX 96 2.53 1.01 13%
7 2 Bobby Miller at PHI/at DET 25 6.12 1.60 9%
8 2 Jake Irvin at NYM/at MIL 106 2.80 1.00 17%
9 3 Mitch Keller NYM/at CHW 103.1 3.48 1.25 16%
10 3 Yusei Kikuchi at SFG/at ARI 94 4.12 1.31 19%
11 3 Carlos Rodón at TBR/at BAL 99 4.45 1.24 17%
12 3 Christian Scott at PIT/COL 33.1 4.32 1.14 14%
13 3 Mitchell Parker STL/at MIL 84.2 3.61 1.10 15%
14 3 Ben Lively at DET/at TBR 77.1 3.14 1.16 14%
15 3 Charlie Morton at ARI/at SDP 91 3.96 1.25 14%
16 3 Blake Snell TOR/MIN 23.2 9.51 1.94 14%
17 4 Gavin Williams at DET/at TBR 4 11.25 2.25 0%
18 4 Brayan Bello OAK/KCR 78 5.19 1.45 12%
19 4 Jon Gray at LAA/at HOU 80.1 3.92 1.33 14%
20 4 Andrew Abbott COL/MIA 96 3.28 1.20 10%
21 4 Joey Estes at BOS/at PHI 55.1 4.39 1.12 13%
22 4 Chris Paddack at CHW/at SFG 78.1 5.29 1.43 15%
23 4 Jameson Taillon at BAL/at STL 81.1 2.99 1.18 14%
24 4 Dean Kremer CHC/NYY 55 3.93 1.09 16%
25 4 Cal Quantrill at CIN/at NYM 100.1 3.77 1.33 9%
26 4 Colin Rea PIT/WSN 94.1 3.34 1.20 10%
27 4 Davis Daniel TEX/SEA 13.1 2.70 0.90 20%
28 4 Miles Mikolas at WSN/CHC 100.2 5.19 1.22 13%
29 5 Ryan Feltner at CIN/at NYM 91.2 5.60 1.46 13%
30 5 Yilber Diaz ATL/TOR #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A
31 5 Keider Montero CLE/LAD 15 6.60 1.40 15%
32 5 Frankie Montas COL/MIA 77.1 4.19 1.32 9%
33 5 Roansy Contreras TEX/SEA 35.2 4.04 1.46 9%
34 5 Andre Pallante KCR/CHC 45 4.00 1.44 9%
35 6 Trevor Rogers at HOU/at CIN 84.1 4.91 1.60 8%
36 6 Kenta Maeda CLE/LAD 63 6.71 1.52 9%
37 6 Chris Flexen MIN/PIT 85 5.08 1.39 8%
38 6 Quinn Priester NYM/at CHW 31.2 4.83 1.55 7%
TYPE Key:
1 – Auto-Start | 2 – All Formats | 3 – Most Formats |
4 – Some Formats | 5 – YOLO | 6 – Hard Pass
Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1317 – 2-Start Pitchers for Week 15

7/5/24

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2-START FOR WEEK 15

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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 5th, 2024

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Hope y’all had a nice 4th of July! I enjoyed a relaxing day with the fam and watching some baseball, but I couldn’t leave y’all hanging without a Friday board, just had to wait until morning of instead of night before.

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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 4th, 2024

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Sorry for no chat today. I wish I could say it was for the holiday or something, but it was a much dumber reason… which I guess was at least tangentially related to the 4th of July. I moved my regular Thursday OOTP show to today because of the 4th but then I got fully in the Thursday groove and didn’t think about botching the chat until late afternoon when it was too late to fire something up. I’ll be back next week with a chat and we can discuss my new SP rankings in more detail.

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Starting Pitcher Chart – July 3rd, 2024

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The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1316 – Reviewing Paul’s SP Rankings

7/1/24

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