Starting Pitcher Chart – June 25th, 2025

June 25, 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.

Chase Burns had a brilliant debut against the Yankees, fanning the first 5 batters he faced and 6 of 7. His stuff was absolutely electric. I was most impressed by the zero walks and that control was the one difference between him and The Mis, who is slated to face Skenes on Wednesday!! Both Burns and Mis will no doubt have their inconsistencies, but the upside is incredible and makes them must-adds in all formats (Mis likely already has been, but Burns won’t be available in the NFBC until this Sunday).

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Starter Notes June 25, 2025

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	2025 wOBA RK
1	Zack Wheeler	PHI at HOU	x	x	x	93	2.61	0.91	27%	21st
2	Paul Skenes	PIT at MIL	x	x	x	102	1.85	0.88	20%	23rd
3	Logan Webb	SFG v MIA	x	x	x	101	2.49	1.12	23%	22nd
4	Joe Ryan	MIN v SEA	x	x	x	85	3.06	0.91	23%	10th
5	Jacob deGrom	TEX at BAL	x	x	x	88	2.24	0.92	20%	11th
6	MacKenzie Gore	WSN at SDP	x	x	x	93	3.19	1.19	25%	23rd
7	Nick Pivetta	SDP v WSN	x	x	x	84	3.64	1.08	20%	19th
8	Max Fried	NYY at CIN	x	x	x	101	2.05	0.96	19%	21st
9	Drew Rasmussen	TBR at KCR	x	x	x	79	2.61	0.97	16%	27th
10	George Kirby	SEA at MIN	x	x	x	30	6.16	1.40	19%	15th
11	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD at COL	x	x	x	84	2.76	1.09	19%	26th
12	Clay Holmes	NYM v ATL	x	x	x	83	3.04	1.23	12%	13th
13	Jacob Misiorowski	MIL v PIT	x	x	x	11	1.64	0.55	16%	29th
14	Zac Gallen	ARI at CHW	x	x	x	91	5.60	1.40	11%	30th
15	Matthew Boyd	CHC at STL	W	x	x	85	2.84	1.14	17%	12th
16	Jack Flaherty	DET v ATH	W	W	x	78	4.83	1.21	19%	9th
17	Jacob Lopez	ATH at DET		x	x	36	4.25	1.44	20%	4th
18	Colton Gordon	HOU v PHI		x	x	35	4.54	1.37	19%	7th
19	Gavin Williams	CLE v TOR			x	75	3.58	1.42	11%	17th
20	Max Scherzer	TOR at CLE			x	3	6.00	1.00	9%	24th
21	Michael Wacha	KCR v TBR			x	86	3.24	1.19	12%	6th
22	Edward Cabrera	MIA at SFG			x	59	3.81	1.39	15%	20th
23	Richard Fitts	BOS at LAA				21	4.71	1.29	9%	25th
24	Yusei Kikuchi	LAA v BOS				89	3.01	1.43	11%	3rd
25	Brady Singer	CIN v NYY				80	4.13	1.30	10%	3rd
26	Didier Fuentes	ATL at NYM				5	7.20	1.40	9%	5th
27	Erick Fedde 페디	STL v CHC				84	3.54	1.30	5%	4th
28	Chase Dollander	COL v LAD				56	6.19	1.48	9%	2nd
29	Sean Burke	CHW v ARI				76	4.50	1.42	8%	1st
30	Brandon Young	BAL v TEX				8	6.23	2.19	2%	28th

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Scotty GMember since 2020

5 months ago

The D-backs lineup doesn’t scare me quite as much today with Carroll, Suarez, and possibly still Naylor all sitting with injuries.

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

Reply to Scotty G

That’s a great point, might need to start loosening restrictions on them…. though Marte can do all the damage himself lol