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Sorry, we have Yoshi instead of Skubal… I fixed it!

• I’m not sure Young’s skills match his mid-3.00s ERA, but he’s been consistently solid across 24 starts, having allowed 4 or fewer ER in all of ’em and CLE is always a nice matchup.
• Painter has been excellent since his recall: 3.14 ERA/0.90 WHIP/16% K-BB with just one bad start (5 ER at MIN) among the seven.
• Peralta has looked sharp in his last 2 (at DET, v. NYM) but a trip to ATL is a much more robust challenge so let’s be careful and not just blindly run him.
• Manaea is coming off back-to-back Duds, but those were against TBR and MIL. He’s been much stronger against the weaker teams this year so while MIA is only 1 game under .500, their offense has been bottom-10 vL so I’m willing to give him a shot.
• I’m a longtime fan of Sandoval but he is just bludgeoning the WHIP with a 1.74 mark. And yet, I still have a 2-x for him against LAA, who sit 26th vL on the year and dead-last over the L30 days.
• Miller is at home where he flourishes (3.14 ERA/0.88 WHIP) but he hasn’t finished 5 IP in any of L3 and the last two at home haven’t been great. I can see taking the shot here as the TEX offense certainly isn’t scary, but I wasn’t super comfortable going beyond 1-x.

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OpenCommand, introduced by Doyoung-Tom Kim, is an absolutely incredible open-source dataset that offers a new way to track pitch locations based on target-miss distance, how far a pitch landed from where the pitcher was actually trying to put it, estimated from the catcher’s setup and camera tracking. Without going too much into detail about the workings of OpenCommand, I would highly recommend checking out his work and the great lengths he went to account for camera angles, plate depth, etc.

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One way to preserve a victory for your team:

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Every Monday, this column will break down the most popular waiver wire and free agent acquisitions from the weekend. I dig into the top adds on the ever-popular Fantrax and in the NFBC Online Championship (OC), a national mid-stakes contest with 240 total leagues of 12 and a six-figure grand prize. Reviewing player adds between the two should provide us with a well-rounded perspective and barometer of the fantasy baseball marketplace.

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• Daily SP Chart archive
• 2-Start podcast episode
• SP Rankings (last update: 7/24 | next: week of 9/7)

Welcome to the Daily SP Chart, click here if you’re new to get an idea of what I’m doing with these rankings.

We’re off for the holiday so no comments today, but figured I would still run a board-only post for y’all! Btw, a few of y’all DM’d me about how Charlotte’s procedure went and it was great. She didn’t end up needing all her teeth out, just 2! And we’ve been through a 2-tooth removal before and everything went very smoothly again.

OK, I lied on no comments, I gotta give a few notes with some quirky things going on today:

• Burns is expected to be limited, but we don’t know exactly what that looks like (will it be 2-3 IP?). But it’s also a trip to LAD, so I’m not super excited to run. He also gets at MIL this weekend so just a brutal 2-step paired w/the limitations makes him a reasonable sit in a lot of spots, particularly if you’re chasing Ws.
• Ryan is returning from the IL with Connor Prielipp slated to go behind him. Again, not sure what sort of limit he’ll be on so definitely not a must-start.
• Pivetta returning from the IL, too, and had 64 pitches in his last rehab outing so he could have enough rope to go 5, but with James Wood back, WSN isn’t the greatest matchup.

Enjoy your Labor Day!

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9/6/26

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live.

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• Justin Mason | Twitter | Bluesky – Host/Producer
• Jason Collette | Bluesky – Co-Host

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Note: I’m taking next weekend off, so someone else will write the report. I might provide a small write-up on interesting players late in the week.

In this article, I cover the players using CBS’s and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change, while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now, while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. I start players being added at CBS who started the week on less than 40% of rosters.

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9/4/26

The latest episode of “The Sleeper and the Bust” is live!

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• Paul Sporer | Twitter | Bluesky – Host
• Justin Mason | Twitter | Bluesky – Co-Host/Producer

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2-START PITCHERS FOR WK24 (Sep 7th)

• AUTO-START: Cam Schlittler, Dylan Cease, Jesús Luzardo, Eury Pérez, Troy Melton
• Chase Burns CIN – @ LAD (wOBA Rk – 2), @ MIL (3) — facing IP limit rest of season
• Landen Roupp SF – vs STL (28), vs SD (22) 11:25
• Andrew Painter PHI – vs HOU (13), @ ATL (10) 13:40
• Noah Cameron KC – vs ARI (3), @ BOS (5) 17:45
• Jacob Lopez ATH – vs TOR (29), vs SEA (26) 20:30
• Joey Cantillo CLE – @ BAL (8), @ MIN (13) 23:23

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American League

Angels

• Oswald Peraza (.621 OPS, 7 HR, 12 SB in 344 PA) started the last three games at third base instead of Denzer Guzman.

Astros

• No changes.

Athletics

• Alika Williams (.735 OPS) started seven of the last nine games at shortstop.

• Since coming off the IL, Denzel Clarke (.421 OPS) has started two of three games, both in center field. In the small sample since returning, he has an 80% Contact% (65% before going on the IL).

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