Starting Pitcher Chart – August 16th, 2024

August 16, 2024

Daily SP Chart archive
Check out the August SP Rankings (NEW!)

I want to make sure it’s known that Arrighetti isn’t just up there because he’s facing the White Sox, he has been absolutely cooking lately: 3.25 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 26% K-BB in his L6 (36 IP) including 25 Ks in his last two starts. He has still allowed 5 HRs during this run (1.3 HR9) so the longball lingers as a potential problem, but as long as they are solos (4 of the 5 have been) he can survive.

I’m still loving what Schwelly is doing, too. He went into Coors and dropped a 6 IP/2 ER/7 K gem that deserved a win before Luke Jackson and Joe Jiménez decided to allow 7 runs in the 8th inning. Schwellenbach’s been even better than Arrighetti of late with a 2.54 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, and 28% K-BB in his L6 (39 IP). I’ll take either Spencer right now, though. They are both in the rotation regardless of matchup right now in virtually every format.

—

Starter Notes August 16, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK L30/Season
1	Paul Skenes	PIT v SEA	x	x	x	92	2.25	0.96	27%	10th/24th
2	Logan Gilbert	SEA at PIT	x	x	x	154	2.91	0.87	21%	28th/29th
3	Corbin Burnes	BAL v BOS	x	x	x	149	2.71	1.05	17%	5th/2nd
4	Gerrit Cole	NYY at DET	x	x	x	46	4.70	1.41	19%	23rd/25th
5	Aaron Nola	PHI v WSN	x	x	x	147	3.60	1.15	17%	19th/18th
6	Spencer Arrighetti	HOU v CHW	x	x	x	105	5.14	1.45	17%	30th/30th
7	Spencer Schwellenbach	ATL at LAA	x	x	x	70	3.95	1.06	23%	24th/26th
8	Sean Manaea	NYM v MIA	x	x	x	123	3.44	1.23	14%	18th/29th
9	Ryne Nelson	ARI at TBR	x	x	x	117	4.51	1.32	13%	27th/28th
10	Ryan Pepiot	TBR v ARI		x	x	87	3.92	1.08	18%	1st/4th
11	Garrett Crochet	CHW at HOU		x	x	120	3.65	1.07	28%	16th/12th
12	José Soriano	LAA v ATL		x	x	109	3.36	1.19	11%	13th/17th
13	Simeon Woods Richardson	MIN at TEX		x	x	102	3.78	1.18	14%	22nd/22nd
14	Andrew Heaney	TEX v MIN		x	x	120	4.05	1.23	16%	26th/10th
15	Matt Waldron	SDP at COL			x	132	4.00	1.16	15%	9th/16th
16	Nick Martinez	CIN v KCR			x	91	3.16	1.03	18%	3rd/11th
17	Yariel Rodríguez	TOR at CHC			x	51	3.53	1.29	12%	26th/19th
18	Gavin Williams	CLE at MIL			x	39	4.38	1.36	17%	8th/8th
19	Aaron Civale	MIL v CLE			x	118	5.02	1.39	14%	29th/21st
20	Cooper Criswell	BOS at BAL			x	71	4.02	1.24	13%	6th/3rd
21	Justin Wrobleski	LAD at STL			x	20	4.05	1.20	10%	14th/28th
22	Michael Lorenzen	KCR at CIN				111	3.79	1.30	7%	14th/15th
23	Kyle Hendricks	CHC v TOR				91	6.60	1.45	10%	17th/14th
24	Cal Quantrill	COL v SDP				122	4.56	1.41	8%	7th/5th
25	Brant Hurter	DET v NYY				8	3.38	0.88	22%	9th/14th
26	Roddery Muñoz	MIA at NYM				74	5.67	1.43	8%	16th/10th
27	Miles Mikolas	STL v LAD				132	5.30	1.29	12%	11th/6th
28	Patrick Corbin	WSN at PHI				131	5.98	1.56	9%	1st/1st

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

The chart includes their 2024 stats (this changed over from last year’s stats on April 22nd), their opponent’s wOBA rank versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far (this is changed as of April 11th) and over the last 30 days, 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 that just means it is a riskier stream as the league gets shallower.

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 and then you can generally expand these recommendations a bit for points leagues.