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Sliding out of the weekend like:

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7:31	Jeff Zimmerman:

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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.

The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by hitters, starters, and relievers. Read the rest of this entry »

8/21/26

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

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2-START PITCHERS FOR Week of Aug 24th

• AUTO-START: Zack Wheeler, Chase Burns, Braxton Ashcraft, Parker Messick, Kevin Gausman, Ranger Suarez, Cade Cavalli, Robbie Ray
• Zac Thornton NYM – vs MIL (20), vs HOU (22) 8:10
• Walbert Ureña LAA – vs CLE (27), vs PHI (18) 10:26
• Keider Montero DET – vs TB (3), vs LAD (2) 14:45
• Seth Lugo KC – @ TOR (23), @ CLE (27) 20:35
• Max Scherzer TOR – vs KC (22), vs SEA (21) 24:15
• Andrew Alvarez WSH – vs COL (21), vs MIA (16) 27:27
• Merrill Kelly 켈리 ARI – vs CHC (7), @ SF (15) 30:00
• Jeffrey Springs ATH – vs MIN (15), vs BAL (12) 31:50
• Tyler Phillips MIA – vs BOS (17), @ WSH (6) 32:08
• THE REST – 34:00
• Adrian Houser SF – vs CIN (30), vs ARI (28) – the one we like of the group
• Matthew Liberatore STL – vs BAL (12), vs PIT (24)
• Kyle Freeland COL – @ WSH (2), @ ATL (14)
• Ryan Feltner COL – @ WSH (6), @ ATL (12)
• Chris Bassitt BAL – @ STL (24), @ ATH (14)
• Jose Urquidy CWS – vs TEX (25), @ MIN (9)
• Ethan Pecko HOU – @ NYY (20), @ NYM (26)

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Approximately 47 minutes of joyous analysis.

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American League

Angels

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Astros

• No changes

Athletics

• With all the injuries to the team (Kurtz, Langeliers, Rooker, Soderstrom, Kuroda-Grauer, Clarke), this lineup is pathetic. Lawrence Butler couldn’t make the lineup earlier in the year, and now he’s batting cleanup. Read the rest of this entry »

Earlier this week, prompted by a Foolish Bailey dive into Jake Bennett and optimal contact prevention, I looked into the stickiest stats for starting pitchers since 2002 that mattered for predicting next season ERA. The four measures that, together, outperformed previous season ERA and did not vary much for pitchers from season to season were Zone%, Z-Contact%, GB%, and, a Rotographs favorite, K-BB%. 

In that article, using a method recently popularized by Ben Clemens, I highlighted the best starting pitchers from this season in those four metrics, using weighted z-scores to compare across the metrics. Below are the top twenty starters.

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It’s been around two weeks since the MLB Trade Deadline. That’s a sample of 2-3 starts for these starting pitchers with their new teams. Though we’re dealing with a small sample, it’s enough to look and see if these players could be making pitch mix adjustments with their new teams.

We’ll examine pitch mix changes and whether it’s helpful to their arsenal moving forward. As with anything fantasy baseball-related, we want to rely more heavily on the larger sample than recent changes. However, the pitch mix adjustments with their new teams could be a signal of future changes in their arsenal. Let’s cover five starting pitchers who have been changing their pitch mix with their new teams.

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

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

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8/20/26

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
• Joe Orrico | Twitter | Bluesky – Co-Host

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• Join our Discord for live video feeds of each show

2027 DRAFT REVIEW

• 1st round
  • Pete Crow-Armstrong 1
  • Yordan Alvarez 9 returns
  • Jordan Walker 10, Jacob Misiorowski 12, CJ Abrams 13 join

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While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even larger entry fees ($2.5K to $15K). They are named Elite leagues (previously called High Stakes Leagues), and there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain every advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in five or more leagues. Read the rest of this entry »