Starting Pitcher Chart – August 7th, 2024
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I have my chat at 2pm ET on Wednesday if you have any questions. Pretty deep board today and as such, I’m probably staying away from the 1-x’s in most cases, but I realize options are tight in many leagues and all three have had runs of success this year.
Wednesday morning updates:
One of the downsides of posting is early is missing changes or in this case, some updated doubleheader information.
- Cortes is moved to Wednesday while Luis Gil & Will Warren will start the DH v. LAA. Gil is an automatic and I miiiight give Warren a shot in deeper leagues if I’m chasing Wins.
- Ben Lively and Eduardo Rodriguez were also rained out so they’ll be on the Wednesday slate joining Pfaadt & Carrasco. Lively was a 2-x reco while I want to wait and see on E-Rod.
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| RK | PITCHER | GAME | 10 | 12 | 15+ | IP | ERA | WHIP | K-BB | wOBA RK L30/Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tarik Skubal | DET at SEA | x | x | x | 136 | 2.57 | 0.95 | 25% | 21st/24th |
| 2 | George Kirby | SEA v DET | x | x | x | 136 | 3.04 | 1.00 | 21% | 17th/27th |
| 3 | Taj Bradley | TBR at STL | x | x | x | 86 | 2.71 | 1.01 | 22% | 14th/12th |
| 4 | Cole Ragans | KCR v BOS | x | x | x | 134 | 3.36 | 1.16 | 21% | 10th/9th |
| 5 | Chris Sale | ATL v MIL | x | x | x | 123 | 2.71 | 0.95 | 26% | 4th/14th |
| 6 | Blake Snell | SFG at WSN | x | x | x | 56 | 4.29 | 1.13 | 21% | 14th/27th |
| 7 | Joe Ryan | MIN at CHC | x | x | x | 133 | 3.59 | 0.99 | 23% | 20th/20th |
| 8 | Michael King | SDP at PIT | x | x | x | 124 | 3.26 | 1.16 | 19% | 19th/29th |
| 9 | Freddy Peralta | MIL at ATL | x | x | x | 120 | 3.89 | 1.19 | 21% | 18th/18th |
| 10 | Erick Fedde | STL v TBR | x | x | x | 126 | 3.34 | 1.14 | 15% | 25th/26th |
| 11 | Jake Irvin | WSN v SFG | x | x | x | 134 | 3.56 | 1.10 | 15% | 24th/23rd |
| 12 | Brandon Pfaadt | ARI at CLE | x | x | x | 131 | 3.97 | 1.13 | 17% | 29th/19th |
| 13 | Yusei Kikuchi | HOU at TEX | x | x | 121 | 4.67 | 1.33 | 21% | 2nd/15th | |
| 14 | NYY v LAA | x | x | x | 129 | 4.16 | 1.20 | 18% | 30th/21st | |
| 15 | Kutter Crawford | BOS at KCR | x | x | x | 129 | 3.77 | 1.09 | 17% | 6th/13th |
| 16 | Andrew Abbott | CIN at MIA | x | x | x | 121 | 3.41 | 1.29 | 10% | 17th/30th |
| 17 | Joey Estes | OAK v CHW | x | x | x | 77 | 4.77 | 1.20 | 12% | 30th/30th |
| 18 | Gavin Stone | LAD v PHI | x | 111 | 3.63 | 1.30 | 12% | 28th/11th | ||
| 19 | Trevor Rogers | BAL at TOR | x | 109 | 4.76 | 1.55 | 8% | 27th/26th | ||
| 20 | Tyler Phillips | PHI at LAD | x | 26 | 4.39 | 1.01 | 15% | 11th/4th | ||
| 21 | José Ureña | TEX v HOU | 80 | 3.70 | 1.27 | 8% | 26th/10th | |||
| 22 | Ryan Feltner | COL v NYM | 121 | 4.97 | 1.41 | 13% | 8th/9th | |||
| 23 | Paul Blackburn | NYM at COL | 57 | 4.11 | 1.18 | 12% | 7th/15th | |||
| 24 | Valente Bellozo | MIA v CIN | 15 | 4.20 | 0.93 | 20% | 5th/17th | |||
| 25 | Javier Assad | CHC v MIN | 98 | 3.19 | 1.37 | 10% | 3rd/5th | |||
| 26 | Marco Gonzales | PIT v SDP | 29 | 3.72 | 1.52 | 9% | 6th/19th | |||
| 27 | Davis Martin | CHW at OAK | 6 | 7.11 | 2.37 | 6% | 9th/21st | |||
| 28 | Bowden Francis | TOR v BAL | 44 | 5.68 | 1.44 | 11% | 10th/3rd | |||
| 29 | Carlos Carrasco | CLE v ARI | 99 | 5.53 | 1.39 | 12% | 4th/7th | |||
| 30 | Carson Fulmer | LAA at NYY | 63 | 3.69 | 1.15 | 13% | 2nd/1st |
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.
Luis Gil?