He’s a human highlight reel:

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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!

• Top 3 guys are awesome and get solid matchups (though Woo and Ras are facing each other so only 1 can win)
• Kershaw is the only other 3-x with a good matchup so he could be a little higher in a DFS situation, but he’s still essentially a 5-and-dive (7 starts of 6+ mixed in) and his Ks are awful at just 16%
• Fried’s going to HOU to square off v. Framber… hopefully it’s a fantastic duel between the 2 southpaws
• Webb’s headed to Coors where he’s logged the most innings outside of Oracle w/decent results: 4.44 ERA/1.16 WHIP/15% K-BB; COL is 4th in wOBA vR at home since the All-Star break, but I’m still running Webb comfortably
• McLean will have his hiccup eventually, but he’s been absolutely dialed in for these 3 starts and I can’t see sitting him anywhere
• Lodolo/Berríos is another fun matchup that could yield a duel or go sideways in Great American Ballpark
• Darvish is an ERA risk (though he has a palatable 3.77 since the 8 ER at STL), but the 1.11 WHIP is very useful
• I stopped short of giving Sevvy the 3rd x because while he is muuuuch better on the road with a 3.17 ERA and 1.06 WHIP, it comes with just a 9% K-BB which puts a lot of pressure on the .237 BABIP to stay great on the road
• Cavalli was cooked for 7 ER at NYY, but that was an easy skip so I’m not going to hold the Dud against him too harshly and even though MIA is better than we thought they’d be this year, I’m comfortable taking another shot w/him here
• Wells is debuting after over 10 months off (last start was 4/12/24) so I’d like to see one before diving in… he could look solid like Luis Garcia did last night as Wells’ 6-start rehab did go pretty well, but there’s a good bit of downside here, too… his 1-x is more to draw attention to his return and maybe pickup and stash instead of starting right away
• Cecconi’s had his dips but mostly been a solid streamer this summer, L10 Game Scores: 55–66–45–54–54–59–26–17–59–52
• I’m keeping an eye on SGL and would even be open to a pickup and stash with him, too, but I’m just not sure how many IP we can expect today and it’s a really tough matchup

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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!

• Jeez, what a tough board to open the week! Greene – our top SP – gets the AL East-leading Blue Jays. Gray and Cease get feisty offenses in ATH and BAL
• Nelson is quietly having a fantastic season and has the best matchup of the Top 5
• Mis went 5 IP last time out, notching 10 Ks… could do it again or go 3 IP but he’s tough to sit anywhere
• Bello’s 5 ER in 5.7 IP at SDP is his only sub-6 IP outing over the L6: 2.12 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 13% K-BB in 38.7 IP
• Strider dropped a solid 7 IP/1 ER gem after 3 straight duds, but still only had 3 Ks… kinda similar to Mis where you’re starting him damn near everywhere despite the remarkably volatile performance
• Dropped an “x” off Castillo and Kikuchi as I’m open to skipping either in shallower formats… trips to TBR & HOU are scary
• Bradish was amazing in his return to the mound, but that doesn’t mean he’s an automatic must-start after 6 good IP
• We have to distance ourselves from the name value of Ober/Manaea relative to their brutal performances
• Added a 2nd “x” to Morales, but didn’t shift the board; I would consider Morales behind Messick now
• Baz terrifies me at home and I took off the 1 “x” he had as I just don’t see the upside of running him anywhere

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7:30	Jeff Zimmerman:

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In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting 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. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters.
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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 “High Stakes Leagues,” and there are eleven of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain any 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 »

Happy Friday, and welcome to the last Pitcher Playing Time Changes of August! We’re running out of time on the regular season, which means a lot of pitchers are running out of time to return from injuries. Others, however, like Chris Sale, will come back and at least get the consolation prize of ending the year healthy and having pitched in MLB games.

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!

This is being put together before Thursday evening’s games even start since I have a fantasy football draft tonight, so I’ll try to stay on top of any switches in the morning since I’m locking the board so early but never hesitate to let me know if someone is switched out.

• Skenes & Javier in for Burrows/McCullers Jr.
• Can’t say I’ve ranked Skenes lower than 1 more than 2-3x this year (the day he and Skubal both went in the PIT-DET doubleheader, but not v. each other was one such day), but Kirby’s matchup is just SO much better
• Peralta has a rough draw in TOR, but aces play v. anyone
• Eury emerged from 3-start blip (6.14 ERA) w/TOR gem (6 IP/2 ER), instilling confidence to trust him everywhere again
• Littell has failed to go 5 IP in 2 of his L3, but still has a fantastic 3.23 ERA/1.11 WHIP in his L20 starts (120 IP)
• I’m probably finding the start for Biebs in 10 teamers, too, but I didn’t want to get toooo drunk on the 1 great start
• Tolle/Tang debuts are going to be super interesting as both have major upside but also substantial risk

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American League

Athletics

• Zack Gelof, Jacob Wilson윌슨, Darell Hernaiz, and Brett Harris with “shuffle” positions and starts.

On Monday, Gelof, Hernaiz and Harris were all in the A’s starting lineup, with Hernaiz manning third base and Harris at first base on a rare day of rest for Nick Kurtz. Those three will likely shuffle around the infield over the final month of the season as the A’s seek to get a closer evaluation of the trio of homegrown players.

“Wilson will also need some rest as we go,” Kotsay said. “There will be enough opportunity to utilize a rotation. It’s about performance, and we’ll also look for the best matchups for those opportunities as well.”

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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!

• 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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