Starting Pitcher Chart – April 23rd, 2025

April 22, 2025

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The chart includes their performance for 2025 (I changed over from 2024 #s on April 15th — a little earlier than last yr), their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far (this changed as of April 14th which is still a pretty small sample, but we can start attacking some cold lineups or be more careful with those performing well 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 basically a 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 value focusing on roto.

Pardon me on the commentary-free board tonight, something in my dinner is not sitting well with me so I’m headed to bed super early! I will answer questions/comments in the morning.

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Starter Notes April 23, 2025

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	2025 wOBA RK
1	Logan Webb	SFG v MIL	x	x	x	30	2.40	1.03	27%	16th
2	Zack Wheeler	PHI at NYM	x	x	x	31	3.73	0.99	29%	19th
3	Freddy Peralta	MIL at SFG	x	x	x	28	1.91	1.02	21%	11th
4	Sandy Alcantara	MIA v CIN	x	x	x	17	7.27	1.38	4%	8th
5	Taj Bradley	TBR at ARI	x	x	x	22	5.24	1.39	15%	1st
6	Carlos Rodón	NYY at CLE	x	x	x	29	4.34	1.10	18%	11th
7	David Festa	MIN v CHW	x	x	x	9	0.00	1.11	21%	29th
8	Brady Singer	CIN at MIA		x	x	21	3.38	1.22	17%	20th
9	Andrew Heaney	PIT at LAA		x	x	25	2.13	0.91	16%	26th
10	David Peterson	NYM v PHI		x	x	22	3.27	1.36	19%	5th
11	Eduardo Rodriguez	ARI v TBR		x	x	22	4.09	1.36	24%	25th
12	Reese Olson	DET v SDP		x	x	20	4.50	1.55	9%	2nd
13	Kumar Rocker	TEX at ATH		x	x	18	6.38	1.47	12%	18th
14	Michael Lorenzen	KCR v COL		x	x	21	4.57	1.43	10%	25th
15	Ryan Gusto	HOU v TOR		x	x	17	3.18	1.24	20%	24th
16	Matthew Boyd	CHC v LAD			x	22	2.01	1.25	12%	21st
17	Bowden Francis	TOR at HOU			x	23	3.13	1.04	13%	26th
18	Germán Márquez	COL at KCR			x	16	8.27	1.84	4%	30th
19	JP Sears	ATH v TEX			x	23	3.13	1.09	14%	14th
20	Tomoyuki Sugano	BAL at WSN				21	3.43	1.29	3%	21st
21	Sean Newcomb	BOS v SEA				17	3.63	1.90	12%	15th
22	Jack Kochanowicz	LAA v PIT				20	6.20	1.48	3%	27th
23	Trevor Williams	WSN v BAL				19	5.95	1.63	11%	4th
24	Luis L. Ortiz	CLE v NYY				21	5.48	1.41	15%	3rd
25	Kyle Hart 하트	SDP at DET				16	6.48	1.38	7%	10th
26	Bryce Elder	ATL v STL				15	7.20	1.53	7%	13th
27	Emerson Hancock	SEA at BOS				5	12.71	2.29	11%	15th
28	Miles Mikolas	STL at ATL				17	7.64	1.58	5%	12th
29	Jairo Iriarte	CHW at MIN				#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	23rd
30	Matt Sauer	LAD at CHC				1	5.40	1.80	0%	7th

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A Salty ScientistMember since 2024

6 months ago

Webb’s K-BB looking really good to start the year. Might be a lot more than high floor going forward.

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

Reply to A Salty Scientist

I’m a mega fan of Webb so I hope you’re right!