Starting Pitcher Chart – August 8th, 2025

August 8, 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.

Starter Notes August 8, 2025

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	2025 wOBA RK
1	Tarik Skubal	DET v LAA	x	x	x	140	2.18	0.83	30%	17th
2	Joe Ryan	MIN v KCR	x	x	x	127	2.83	0.93	23%	28th
3	Cristopher Sánchez	PHI at TEX	x	x	x	130	2.55	1.09	20%	29th
4	Nick Pivetta	SDP v BOS	x	x	x	128	2.73	0.94	21%	8th
5	Hunter Brown	HOU at NYY	x	x	x	131	2.47	0.98	23%	2nd
6	Matthew Boyd	CHC at STL	x	x	x	130	2.34	1.03	17%	16th
7	Edward Cabrera	MIA at ATL	x	x	x	94	3.35	1.23	16%	18th
8	Brandon Woodruff	MIL v NYM	x	x	x	28	2.22	0.64	32%	6th
9	Drew Rasmussen	TBR at SEA	x	x	x	105	2.81	1.02	17%	14th
10	Chase Burns	CIN at PIT	x	x	x	28	6.04	1.48	27%	29th
11	Luis Castillo	SEA v TBR	x	x	x	131	3.22	1.21	14%	9th
12	Mitch Keller	PIT v CIN	x	x	x	127	3.69	1.20	13%	12th
13	Seth Lugo	KCR at MIN	x	x	x	118	3.03	1.13	14%	22nd
14	Merrill Kelly 켈리	TEX v PHI	x	x	x	134	3.22	1.04	17%	10th
15	Kodai Senga	NYM at MIL	x	x	x	89	2.31	1.25	11%	16th
16	Max Scherzer	TOR at LAD		x	x	41	4.39	1.05	22%	4th
17	Clayton Kershaw	LAD v TOR		x	x	65	3.29	1.25	9%	8th
18	Tanner Bibee	CLE at CHW			x	125	4.51	1.26	15%	30th
19	J.T. Ginn	ATH at BAL			x	48	4.28	1.26	17%	11th
20	Zac Gallen	ARI v COL			x	133	5.48	1.36	13%	25th
21	Aaron Civale	CHW v CLE			x	70	3.99	1.26	10%	26th
22	Kai-Wei Teng	SFG v WSN			x	3	13.50	2.10	6%	24th
23	Cam Schlittler	NYY v HOU			x	19	4.58	1.68	11%	19th
24	Tomoyuki Sugano	BAL v ATH				114	4.42	1.32	10%	7th
25	Michael McGreevy	STL v CHC				39	5.08	1.23	10%	3rd
26	Jake Irvin	WSN at SFG				130	4.89	1.33	8%	20th
27	Kyle Hendricks	LAA at DET				111	4.59	1.24	9%	15th
28	Bryce Elder	ATL v MIA				94	6.03	1.56	10%	13th
29	Walker Buehler	BOS at SDP				94	5.74	1.60	6%	23rd
30	Austin Gomber	COL at ARI				43	6.18	1.60	8%	13th

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues |

KEY
x: Standard Recommendation | W: Chasing the Win

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GreggMember since 2020

3 months ago

I’m at the point where I am willing to admit that Woodruff is back to an ace and will be tremendous next year as well.

It’s incredible, but it’s at that point.

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

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Him and Eury… being trusted as aces again must faster than I expected!!