Starting Pitcher Chart – August 16th, 2025

August 16, 2025

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.

I’ll try to get y’all as many weekend boards as I can down the stretch!

Starter Notes August 16, 2025

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	2025 wOBA RK
1	Max Fried	NYY at STL	x	x	x	139	2.78	1.07	17%	13th
2	Bryan Woo	SEA at NYM	x	x	x	140	3.02	0.94	20%	6th
3	Shota Imanaga	CHC v PIT	x	x	x	89	3.12	1.00	15%	29th
4	Sonny Gray	STL v NYY	x	x	x	128	4.21	1.17	23%	4th
5	Quinn Priester	MIL at CIN	x	x	x	114	3.15	1.19	12%	14th
6	Casey Mize	DET at MIN	x	x	x	100	3.50	1.29	15%	21st
7	Blake Snell	LAD v SDP	x	x	x	19	2.37	1.53	13%	17th
8	Eric Lauer 라우어	TOR v TEX	x	x	x	80	2.59	0.98	19%	28th
9	Ryne Nelson	ARI at COL	x	x	x	101	3.20	1.05	14%	28th
10	Dylan Cease	SDP at LAD		x	x	123	4.60	1.30	22%	2nd
11	Adrian Houser	TBR at SFG		x	x	74	2.54	1.29	9%	22nd
12	Slade Cecconi	CLE v ATL		x	x	82	3.72	1.19	14%	16th
13	Brayan Bello	BOS v MIA		x	x	116	3.03	1.28	9%	12th
14	Zack Littell	CIN v MIL		x	x	140	3.46	1.10	13%	11th
15	Michael Lorenzen	KCR v CHW		x	x	99	4.61	1.30	13%	30th
16	Taijuan Walker	PHI at WSN		W	W	79	3.53	1.30	10%	24th
17	Zebby Matthews	MIN v DET			x	38	5.17	1.38	23%	15th
18	Mike Burrows	PIT at CHC			x	62	4.45	1.29	15%	5th
19	Justin Verlander	SFG v TBR			x	94	4.29	1.45	11%	10th
20	Patrick Corbin	TEX at TOR			x	112	3.91	1.31	13%	6th
21	Cade Povich	BAL at HOU			x	70	5.25	1.45	17%	1st
22	Nolan McLean	NYM v SEA				#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	13th
23	Jason Alexander	HOU v BAL				31	5.97	1.61	7%	17th
24	Cade Cavalli	WSN v PHI				4	0.00	0.92	26%	8th
25	Sean Burke	CHW at KCR				114	4.26	1.44	11%	25th
26	Cal Quantrill	MIA at BOS				102	5.21	1.37	12%	9th
27	Tyler Anderson	LAA at ATH				122	4.63	1.40	9%	8th
28	Chase Dollander	COL v ARI				68	6.68	1.56	6%	1st
29	Joey Wentz	ATL at CLE				57	5.34	1.45	10%	27th
30	Luis Morales	ATH v LAA				2	4.50	2.00	-11%	19th

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

KEY x: Standard Recommendation | W: Chasing the Win

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AnonMember since 2025

3 months ago

As pointed out on the Orioles broadcast last night, it’s really a shame that Jason Alexander and Dean Kremer (Kramer) didn’t line up in this series.

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

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laughed so hard at that!