Starting Pitcher Chart – June 20th, 2025

by Paul Sporer

June 20, 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.

An updated version of the board went up at 9:45 am CT. Several cells were misaligned causing some issues.

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Starter Notes June 20, 2025

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	2025 wOBA RK
1	Hunter Brown	HOU at LAA	x	x	x	86	1.88	0.93	24%	24th
2	Jacob deGrom	TEX at PIT	x	x	x	82	2.19	0.91	20%	29th
3	Max Fried	NYY v BAL	x	x	x	95	1.89	0.95	19%	4th
4	Zack Wheeler	PHI v NYM	x	x	x	88	2.76	0.89	27%	25th
5	Joe Ryan	MIN v MIL	x	x	x	80	2.93	0.90	23%	6th
6	George Kirby	SEA at CHC	x	x	x	25	5.96	1.36	21%	28th
7	Matthew Boyd	CHC v SEA	x	x	x	80	2.79	1.17	17%	10th
8	Nick Pivetta	SDP v KCR	x	x	x	79	3.40	1.05	21%	27th
9	Jack Flaherty	DET at TBR	x	x	x	76	4.03	1.13	20%	9th
10	MacKenzie Gore	WSN at LAD	x	x	x	87	2.89	1.15	27%	5th
11	Hayden Birdsong	SFG v BOS		x	x	48	2.79	1.28	15%	14th
12	Tanner Bibee	CLE at ATH		x	x	80	3.79	1.21	12%	7th
13	Hunter Dobbins	BOS at SFG		x	x	55	3.74	1.19	14%	18th
14	Brady Singer	CIN at STL		x	x	74	4.34	1.34	9%	11th
15	Janson Junk	MIA v ATL		x	x	22	2.78	1.01	20%	13th
16	Jacob Misiorowski	MIL at MIN		x	x	5		0.80	6%	17th
17	Spencer Turnbull	TOR v CHW		x	x	4	2.08	2.08		30th
18	Jeffrey Springs	ATH v CLE		x	x	79	4.52	1.29	10%	24th
19	Mike Burrows	PIT v TEX			x	23	4.24	1.29	18%	28th
20	Zac Gallen	ARI at COL			x	86	5.19	1.35	11%	26th
21	Yusei Kikuchi	LAA v HOU			x	82	3.05	1.48	10%	1st
22	Shane Baz	TBR v DET			x	77	4.54	1.32	13%	15th
23	Tomoyuki Sugano	BAL at NYY				80	3.38	1.14	10%	3rd
24	Austin Gomber	COL v ARI				5		0.60	17%	14th
25	Michael Lorenzen	KCR at SDP				77	4.91	1.36	12%	16th
26	Davis Martin	CHW at TOR				80	3.79	1.23	10%	19th
27	Clayton Kershaw	LAD v WSN				27	3.25	1.30	9%	18th
28	Didier Fuentes	ATL at MIA				#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A	21st
29	Blade Tidwell	NYM at PHI				3	14.73	3.27	-4%	8th
30	Andre Pallante	STL v CIN				76	4.83	1.38	8%	5th

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muhle1srMember since 2018

1 year ago

Kershaw hasn’t earned any trust with his past few starts?

puddleMember since 2017

Reply to muhle1sr

Not with that 9% K%-BB% and a sky high hard-hit rate.

AnonMember since 2025

96* at game time with the wind blowing out in Coors today.

Wind also blowing out in Wrigley and Sacramento as well as NY, Philly, LA (both parks), St Louis, and SF (24 mph there). But Wrigley and Sutter Health are both significantly more impacted by wind than the others. Only park with the wind blowing in is Target Field in MIN.

Good day for hitters

someheavyMember since 2020

How can multiple teams have the same wOBA rank (unless it’s only to 3dp for some reason)? And the Cubs are definitely not 28th vs RHP. Am I misunderstanding the last column?

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

Reply to someheavy

If you see 2 tms ranked the same, one might be vR and the other vL. That said, the board was indeed messed up w/several cells misaligned causing issues including the Cubs one you highlighted. TY for the heads up & it’s fixed now.

RobertMember since 2017

Quibling around the margins since all of the top four are true aces but I think I like Wheeler better than Fried given the wOBA ranks of the respective teams and his stronger propensity for Ks.

wobatusMember since 2024

Grant Taylor to start for Chisox. Kinda odd since he pitched last night.

GreggMember since 2020

Fun facts:

-Kershaw is exactly 3 months older than deGrom-When deGrom was a rookie in 2014, he averaged 93.5 mph on his FF, which is 0.5 mph faster than Kershaw did that year-In 2025, deGrom is averaging exactly 8 mph faster on his FF than Kershaw

Last edited 1 year ago by Gregg

Reply to Gregg

I would have assumed Kershaw was quite a bit older than deGrom. Easy to forget how young Kershaw was up.

Haven’t had Stathead in a few years so I can’t look it up, but I have to wonder when’s the last time a starter got the W despite giving up 7 runs (Gallen tonight).