Roto Riteup — Presented by DraftKings: April 24, 2014

Guess what day it is, Roto Riteup readers?! It’s two days after Earth Day, when I take an even bigger bag of paper and shove it into the garbage can to offset all the good everyone did because I don’t like change.

On today’s agenda:
1. Michael Pineda feels justice
2. Clayton Kershaw’s rehab scheduled
3. Fun with tons of arbitrary endpoints
4. The Fast Five

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Michael Pineda feels justice
After getting away with literally murder in his last start against the Red Sox, Pineda got caught with the special sauce on his neck this time around. Pineda was ejected from the game, and he could now face a 10-game suspension for his crimes, which would mean missing at least one scheduled start. Embarrassing for Pineda, and a little pain for his fantasy owners.

Clayton Kershaw’s rehab scheduled
Kershaw will head off to A-ball on Friday to throw about 50 pitches in a rehab outing as he gradually works his way back from turned out to be a tricky back injury. Kershaw still has a couple weeks left before he’ll be ready to return, so expect him to be activated from the DL in two weeks or so.

Fun with tons of arbitrary endpoints
In honor of FanGraphs’ improved Game Log features, we’re bringing out the big guns this week. Other than Aaron Harang, all stats through Tuesday’s action.

Aaron Harang, 2012-2013: 57 GS, 323 IP, 4.43 FIP, 4.57 SIERA
Aaron Harang, 2014: 5 GS, 31.2 IP, 2.18 FIP

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Danny Salazar, 2013: 52 IP, 65 K, 3.12 ERA
Danny Salazar, career: 70.1 IP, 88K, 4.35 ERA,

Erasmo Ramirez, 2012: 59 IP, 48 K, 12 BB, 6 HR
Erasmo Ramirez, 2013-present: 96.1 IP, 77 K, 37 BB, 18 HR

Cliff Lee, July 2013 – present: 132.1 IP, 145 K, 13 BB, 8-8 record


The Fast Five

DraftKings lied to me, so use these tomorrow instead!

SP: Colby Lewis, $6,300
Lewis gets to give up flys in Seattle instead of Texas.

SP: Matt Garza, $8,400
Garza squares off against his former team in the Cubs, which isn’t exactly a world-beater offensively.

1B: Eric Hosmer, $3,400
The Wiz gets to go into Baltimore against a struggling Ubaldo.

OF: Gerardo Parra, $3,300
Parra gets the artist formerly known as Fausto, who while decent this year, isn’t always sharp.

OF: Jayson Werth, $3,700
Werth against a lefty.

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Zach is the creator and co-author of RotoGraphs' Roto Riteup series, and RotoGraphs' second-longest tenured writer. You can follow him on twitter.

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FeslenR
12 years ago

now we know the secret to Pineda’s resurgence 🙂

descender
12 years ago
Reply to  FeslenR

Being a good pitcher?

A dumb pitcher, sure… but if anyone thinks he’s going to suddenly regress after this incident is in for a surprise.

Roby
12 years ago

MiLB roto piece of note:

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140423&content_id=73159192&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

Alex Meyer is throwing a new change-up. Could be an above-average offering at this point. Got 11Ks, 0 ERA with it last night. Combined with his improved control, could be one of the top 5 fantasy starting prospects hitting MLB this year.

Legion of Boom
12 years ago
Reply to  Roby

Pelfry and Correia would have to be injured before we see this guy?

Jake
12 years ago

No game for Seattle and Texas tonight so Lewis should be fine, when he actually squares off on Sat. against King Felix probably not so fine.

Kelly L.
12 years ago
Reply to  Jake

Yeah and I’ve got CHC against ARI’s Bolsinger tonight instead of Garza.

FladaYank
12 years ago

Pineda isn’t very smart is he. Big dummy putting it on his neck for all the world to see.

descender
12 years ago
Reply to  FladaYank

I don’t think it was very intelligent move by Farrell. Now his pitchers will be under much higher scrutiny by opposing managers (and we all know they do it too, in the playoffs no less). I feel like teams were letting each other slide on the tar because no one wants to get hurt and it DOESN’T influence the flight path of the ball in any way. They don’t complain because they don’t want attention focused on their own pitchers. Well, now they’ve got that attention. Good luck Lester/Buchholz.

Emcee Peepants
12 years ago
Reply to  descender

So if it doesn’t influence the path of the ball, why is Pineda doing it in the first place and why should Farrell be worried about MLB looking more closely at his guys?

Tom B
12 years ago
Reply to  descender

It’s used for grip, not like what pitchers used to do with vaseline and such… which is why the rule was initially implemented.

SKob
12 years ago
Reply to  descender

I love how Yankee fans think Farrell should have let it go. When MLB issues a warning to a pitcher and he does something so blatently obvious, of course it would be someone elses fault! Anything deserving of a 10 game suspension is not someone elses fault!

Pineda was actually probably dumb enough to think ‘where do I put this so nobody sees it? I can’t see my neck, so sure!’

Clayton
12 years ago

“But Lee doesn’t get the wins though!”
– Harold Reynolds

Eric
12 years ago

Martin Perez is sitting out there in my league…would you drop Kluber or Porcello for him?

ImDownWithOBP
12 years ago

That intro!

Dale Mohorcic
12 years ago

Literally murder? Methinks thou doth overstate the case.

descender
12 years ago

When will the real Roto Riteup return?

Pineda’s tar incident and a Kershaw rehab start? Is that all that happened yesterday?! 15 games to write about and that’s it?!

TreeFrog
12 years ago
Reply to  descender

Other sites do a much better job with daily write ups now that FG/RG has it in with all the DraftKings and FanDuels of the world.

Emcee Peepants
12 years ago
Reply to  descender

Waaaaaaahhhhh!

cs3
12 years ago

Whats going on with the Fast Five anyway?
If the space is going to be wasted with DFS talk, the matchups and prices should probably at least be correct for that day