Starting Pitcher Chart – June 6th, 2024
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Some risk with a few of the higher end options today, but sometimes ya gotta hold your nose and run with ’em.
Let them be great!
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| RK | PITCHER | GAME | 10 | 12 | 15+ | IP | ERA | WHIP | K-BB | wOBA RK L30/Season | NOTE |
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| 1 | Sonny Gray | STL v COL | x | x | x | 57 | 3.00 | 1.05 | 27% | 11th/21st | |
| 2 | Tanner Houck | BOS at CHW | x | x | x | 78 | 1.85 | 0.96 | 19% | 30th/30th | |
| 3 | Bryan Woo | SEA at OAK | x | x | x | 27 | 1.30 | 0.58 | 16% | 14th/20th | |
| 4 | Reynaldo López | ATL at WSN | x | x | x | 57 | 1.73 | 1.08 | 15% | 28th/22nd | |
| 5 | Pablo López | MIN at NYY | x | x | x | 67 | 4.84 | 1.15 | 23% | 1st/1st | Big rebound start in HOU is encouraging so I’m rolling w/him here despite how terrifying NYY is these days |
| 6 | Hunter Greene | CIN v CHC | x | x | x | 70 | 3.44 | 1.16 | 16% | 21st/19th | Still just a 6% HR/FB and while I’m still very skeptical it will hold at that level, if he can live somewhere in the 9-12% range that would be great |
| 7 | Marcus Stroman | NYY v MIN | x | x | x | 69 | 2.73 | 1.23 | 9% | 22nd/18th | |
| 8 | Yusei Kikuchi | TOR v BAL | x | x | x | 66 | 3.66 | 1.25 | 18% | 9th/7th | I have some nerves w/him, but push-come-to-shove, I’m starting him is most spots |
| 9 | Brady Singer | KCR at CLE | x | x | x | 61 | 2.63 | 1.12 | 18% | 15th/15th | CLE isn’t as terrifying for righties and Singer is rolling this yr, incl. 5 starts of exactly 1 ER over his L6 |
| 10 | Mitchell Parker | WSN v ATL | x | x | 50 | 3.60 | 1.14 | 15% | 14th/8th | I didn’t know who Mitchell Parker was coming into the season and now I’m giving him real consideration v. ATL… at least hold for at DET if you skip this one | |
| 11 | Walker Buehler | LAD at PIT | x | x | 25 | 4.32 | 1.32 | 16% | 25th/29th | He’s clearly not himself right now, though this could be the perfect Rx | |
| 12 | Cade Povich | BAL at TOR | x | x | #N/A | #N/A | #N/A | #N/A | 30th/14th | Everyone has their own strategy on starting debuts, but I’m open to it… especially w/TOR sputtering | |
| 13 | JP Sears | OAK v SEA | x | x | 67 | 4.01 | 1.11 | 9% | 19th/25th | Any halfway competent SP gets the nod v. SEA right now and Sears has been great of late: 3.41 ERA/1.11 WHIP in L6 | |
| 14 | Javier Assad | CHC at CIN | x | x | 63 | 2.27 | 1.18 | 13% | 20th/27th | Bounced back from dud 2-step w/a nice outing v. CIN last wk; gets ’em again and they just aren’t a team to run from right now | |
| 15 | Cal Quantrill | COL at STL | 68 | 3.84 | 1.29 | 9% | 2nd/10th | LAD snapped his hot run but that’s expected and no one started him for that anyway… the tough part is you’re kinda streaming for ERA give his modest WHIP and W upside | |||
| 16 | Slade Cecconi | ARI at SDP | 37 | 5.59 | 1.05 | 12% | 8th/3rd | ||||
| 17 | Randy Vásquez | SDP v ARI | 26 | 5.74 | 1.61 | 11% | 12th/23rd | ||||
| 18 | Bailey Falter | PIT v LAD | 64 | 3.22 | 0.95 | 9% | 3rd/4th | ||||
| 19 | Logan Allen | CLE v KCR | 58 | 5.83 | 1.55 | 12% | 1st/11th | ||||
| 20 | Jake Woodford | CHW v BOS | 4 | 6.23 | 1.62 | 10% | 13th/9th |
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.
Looks like Bibee is starting tomorrow for Cleveland. Gonna assume that’s X X X for 10 12 and 15?
Yes, I’m still 100% on board w/Bibee
Allen vs. Miami this Saturday is the Guards play, then. Certainly less intimidating of a matchup, but he’s too bad to get any run in Fantasy, currently.
As you note, “Everyone has their own strategy on starting debuts,” but what’s the data say? How do starting pitchers with an FV of 50 or above fare in their MLB debuts?
Need to use four of these starts….I lean Michael King, Bailey Ober, Pfaadt, Povich? I’m an Os fan and can only tune into part of hte game tho…hmmm
king ari
pffaadt sd
reese olson mil
Povich tor
marsh sea
ober pitt
You have me convinced to roll with Pablo through the 6 or 7 duds and 5 or 6 meh starts….because those other 12-15 are just sooooooo good. BUT, this is absolutely terrifying today!
I’m super nervous, but rolling w/him. Let’s Thelma & Louise this car right off the cliff!!
Sorry, I know this is a dumb question based off how often you use the word, but what do you mean when you are saying streaming?
Streaming them in and out of your lineup. A pure streamer is someone you pick up off the wire for a specific start and then cut him back into the waiver pool. A team streamer is someone you only use specific starts for but don’t cut him when not using him.
So normally on a 9 pitcher setup where I have 7 SPs and 2 RPs, I want:
4-5 locked in SPs who never leave the lineup (the more, the better here… of course)
2-3 team streamers
1-2 streamers
there are overlapping numbers because you can’t always reach the ideal
Makes sense. Thank you for explaining that, as well as these daily posts. I read them every day.