Starting Pitcher Chart – August 21st, 2024

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I just don’t know what to expect from Crochet innings-wise, so he’s no longer a must-start.

Only 8 full scale recos before things start getting dicey because of matchup or performance and sometimes both.

Look, I’m on the Tobias Myers Train. I’m not entirely sure how it’s working this well and I don’t think it will continue at this pace but I’ll trade some ratio regression for win opportunity w/MIL.

I know TOR popped off tonight, but I’m still feeling pretty good about Martinez.

Gotta see one from Verlander before slotting him in.

I had zero clue Cueto was still playing… it’s awesome that he’s back!

Still plenty of risk with Montgomery, especially with MIA hitting better of late.

Wednesday morning update: Skenes is starting tomorrow and German is going today… I’m not re-running the full board, so I just made the janky-looking update of slotting German in Skenes’ spot and removing all the x’s since I wouldn’t start him anywhere.

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Starter Notes August 21, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK L30/Season
1	Logan Webb	SFG v CHW	x	x	x	164	3.17	1.22	15%	29th/30th
2	Jack Flaherty	LAD v SEA	x	x	x	123	3.06	1.01	28%	17th/24th
3	Ryan Pepiot	TBR at OAK	x	x	x	92	3.69	1.08	18%	12th/20th
4	Logan Gilbert	SEA at LAD	x	x	x	161	2.96	0.88	20%	11th/6th
5	Aaron Nola	PHI at ATL	x	x	x	154	3.45	1.16	16%	13th/16th
6	Max Fried	ATL v PHI	x	x	x	121	3.62	1.25	14%	1st/1st
7	~~Paul Skenes~~ \| Domingo Germán	PIT at TEX				98	2.30	0.97	25%	27th/23rd
8	Tobias Myers	MIL at STL	x	x	x	99	2.81	1.11	15%	20th/13th
9	Nestor Cortes	NYY v CLE		x	x	141	4.20	1.19	18%	16th/8th
10	Garrett Crochet	CHW at SFG		x	x	124	3.61	1.07	29%	10th/7th
11	Nick Martinez	CIN at TOR		x	x	97	3.25	1.05	18%	16th/14th
12	Jameson Taillon	CHC v DET		x	x	121	3.62	1.18	14%	28th/26th
13	Mitchell Parker	WSN v COL			x	115	4.44	1.27	14%	28th/23rd
14	Michael Lorenzen	KCR v LAA			x	117	3.68	1.28	6%	24th/25th
15	Yariel Rodríguez	TOR v CIN			x	56	3.86	1.29	12%	18th/18th
16	Kenta Maeda	DET at CHC			x	90	6.18	1.39	12%	23rd/19th
17	Mitch Spence	OAK v TBR			x	108	4.64	1.34	11%	21st/27th
18	Cole Irvin	BAL at NYM			x	94	4.85	1.40	11%	22nd/5th
19	Cooper Criswell	BOS at HOU			x	75	4.56	1.36	11%	14th/9th
20	Sean Manaea	NYM v BAL			x	130	3.46	1.21	14%	8th/3rd
21	Jordan Montgomery	ARI at MIA			x	89	6.25	1.66	7%	15th/30th
22	Justin Verlander	HOU v BOS				57	3.95	1.21	14%	3rd/2nd
23	Simeon Woods Richardson	MIN at SDP				107	3.77	1.17	13%	5th/4th
24	Kyle Gibson	STL v MIL				131	4.26	1.34	13%	8th/8th
25	Matt Waldron	SDP v MIN				138	4.29	1.19	15%	7th/7th
26	Joey Cantillo	CLE at NYY				13	6.23	1.62	5%	12th/14th
27	Andrew Heaney	TEX v PIT				124	4.20	1.24	16%	2nd/17th
28	Johnny Cueto	LAA at KCR				#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	4th/11th
29	Tanner Gordon	COL at WSN				27	7.00	1.48	15%	19th/17th
30	Roddery Muñoz	MIA v ARI				78	5.88	1.47	8%	1st/5th

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.