Starting Pitcher Chart – July 26th, 2024

July 25, 2024

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I’ll get a new SP rankings update out shortly after the Trade Deadline. Should be able to turn it around by the end of next week. The deadline is on Tuesday the 30th this year. Nick Pollack and I will be live during Deadline Day analyzing the fantasy impact of the deals.

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Starter Notes July 26, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK L30/Season
1	George Kirby	SEA at CHW	x	x	x	123	3.20	0.98	22%	30th/30th
2	Freddy Peralta	MIL v MIA	x	x	x	109	3.88	1.17	22%	25th/29th
3	Grayson Rodriguez	BAL v SDP	x	x	x	105	3.83	1.22	20%	19th/5th
4	Sonny Gray	STL v WSN	x	x	x	106	3.54	1.06	25%	15th/17th
5	Pablo López	MIN at DET	x	x	x	111	4.86	1.15	23%	14th/22nd
6	Zac Gallen	ARI v PIT	x	x	x	81	3.64	1.25	16%	16th/28th
7	Brady Singer	KCR v CHC	x	x	x	111	3.00	1.22	15%	18th/20th
8	Luis L. Ortiz	PIT at ARI	x	x	x	73	2.57	1.11	13%	6th/12th
9	Nick Lodolo	CIN at TBR	x	x	x	84	3.51	1.12	18%	4th/11th
10	Cristopher Sánchez	PHI v CLE	x	x	x	109	2.97	1.24	14%	8th/6th
11	Yusei Kikuchi	TOR v TEX	x	x	x	111	4.54	1.31	21%	3rd/16th
12	Framber Valdez	HOU v LAD	x	x	x	104	3.63	1.28	12%	27th/2nd
13	MacKenzie Gore	WSN at STL		x	x	100	4.20	1.46	17%	24th/29th
14	Drew Thorpe	CHW v SEA		x	x	32	3.58	1.04	3%	29th/27th
15	Mitch Spence	OAK at LAA		x	x	88	4.67	1.33	13%	24th/25th
16	Kyle Harrison	SFG v COL		x	x	91	3.86	1.34	12%	23rd/15th
17	Kodai Senga	NYM v ATL		x	x	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	26th/21st
18	Nestor Cortes	NYY at BOS		x	x	119	3.99	1.16	18%	26th/12th
19	Ben Lively	CLE at PHI		x	x	88	3.58	1.17	15%	17th/8th
20	Charlie Morton	ATL at NYM			x	103	3.92	1.22	15%	2nd/9th
21	Brayan Bello	BOS v NYY			x	95	5.27	1.44	14%	9th/1st
22	Shane Baz	TBR v CIN			x	10	5.23	1.45	20%	5th/15th
23	Gavin Stone	LAD at HOU			x	101	3.19	1.23	12%	22nd/10th
24	Andrew Heaney	TEX at TOR			x	95	3.79	1.25	17%	18th/26th
25	Kyle Hendricks	CHC at KCR				75	6.69	1.49	9%	7th/13th
26	Carson Fulmer	LAA v OAK				47	3.45	1.21	13%	4th/18th
27	Trevor Rogers	MIA at MIL				95	4.72	1.55	8%	5th/13th
28	Adam Mazur	SDP at BAL				31	7.84	1.84	1%	10th/4th
29	Keider Montero	DET v MIN				26	5.47	1.37	12%	3rd/6th
30	Kyle Freeland	COL at SFG				48	5.63	1.54	9%	19th/9th

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 versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far (this is changed as of April 11th), 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.