Roto Riteup — presented by DraftKings: September 25, 2014

Today is my last day shepherding the Roto Riteup through the 2014 season. While it’s fresh on your mind, please provide some feedback in the comments if you have ideas for what we could do better in 2015.

On today’s agenda:
1. Pitching Changes
2. Fun with arbitrary endpoints
3. The Final Fourteen Five

Pitching Changes
David Hale will start today for the Braves in place of Mike Minor, who has been shut down with shoulder problems. Hale will face the Pirates, and enters the game with a 2.22 ERA in five big league starts this season. He’s a nice streaming option.

Tom Wilhelmsen will start for the Mariners today against Toronto. Wilhelmsen probably won’t go more than three innings, so expect plenty of relievers to get some action to fill up the rest of the frames.

Rafael Montero will go for the Mets on Saturday in place of Jacob deGrom. Montero has had three good outings for New York this year and four poor ones, so we’ll see which version shows up against the Astros.

Fun with arbitrary endpoints
All stats through Tuesday unless otherwise noted

Scott Kazmir, first 4 months: 21 GS, 129.1 IP, 116 K, 30 BB, 11 HR; 2.37 ERA, .261 BABIP
Scott Kazmir, August/September: 10 GS, 54 IP, 43 K, 20 BB, 5 HR; 6.67 ERA, .355 BABIP

Jeff Samardzija, 2014 Cubs: 17 GS, 108 IP, 103 K, 31 BB, 7 HR; 2.83 ERA, .305 BABIP
Jeff Samardzija, 2014 A’s: 15 GS, 104.2 IP, 90 K, 12 BB, 11 HR; 2.92 ERA, .255 BABIP

Tyler Matzek, last 30 days: 40.2 IP, 38 K, 14 BB, 1 HR; 1.55 ERA
Alex Wood, last 30 days: 41.2 IP, 46 K, 8 BB, 3 HR; 1.94 ERA
Jarred Cosart, last 30 days: 40.2 IP, 29 K, 9 BB, 1 HR; 2.21 ERA
Andrew Cashner, last 30 days: 37 IP, 29 K, 4 BB, 2 HR; 1.70 ERA
Jerome Williams, last 30 days: 31 IP, 23 K, 9 BB, 3 HR; 2.90 ERA
Hiroki Kuroda, last 30 days: 31 IP, 29 K, 1 BB, 2 HR; 2.90 ERA
Drew Hutchison, last 30 days: 29.2 IP, 42 K, 10 BB, 5 HR; 3.64 ERA
David Price, last 30 days: 39.2 IP, 42 K, 7 BB, 2 HR; 5.22 ERA

Noah Syndergaard, last 30 days of season: 7 GS, 35 IP, 41 K, 15 BB, 2 HR; 4.89 ERA, .372 BABIP

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The Final Fourteen Five

SP: Andrew Cashner | $9,000 | @SFG
SP: David Hale | $4,500 | vPIT
C: Alex Avila | $3,300 | vMIN (Trevor May)
1B: Adam Dunn | $3,600 | @TEX (Colby Lewis)
OF: Matt Joyce | $3,200 | @BOS (Allen Webster)

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