Starting Pitcher Chart – March 28th, 2024

March 28, 2024

The chart includes their last season performance until we get some actual data for this year, their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness from last year (and then I’ll add the last 30 days outlook next month), my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them (well, no notes for this first weekend since we’re mostly just going off the preseason analysis, but I will answer as many comments as I can). 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 basically a risky 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 value focusing on roto.

This will come out the night before most days. I had a late night draft last night and just couldn’t stay up to finish it afterwards. But it’s Opening Day so most of the decisions are pretty easy!

Starter Notes March 29, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK Last Yr
1	Tarik Skubal	DET at CHW	x	x	x	80	2.80	0.90	28%	27th
2	Pablo López	MIN at KCR	x	x	x	194	3.66	1.15	23%	26th
3	Tyler Glasnow	LAD v STL	x	x	x	120	3.53	1.08	26%	9th
4	Luis Castillo	SEA v BOS	x	x	x	197	3.34	1.10	20%	8th
5	Shane Bieber	CLE at OAK	x	x	x	128	3.80	1.23	14%	29th
6	Cole Ragans	KCR v MIN	x	x	x	96	3.47	1.16	18%	19th
7	Zach Eflin	TBR v TOR	x	x	x	177	3.50	1.02	23%	11th
8	Corbin Burnes	BAL v LAA	x	x	x	193	3.39	1.07	17%	15th
9	Framber Valdez	HOU v NYY	x	x	x	198	3.45	1.13	18%	9th
10	Logan Webb	SFG at SDP	x	x	x	216	3.25	1.07	19%	18th
11	Zac Gallen	ARI v COL	x	x	x	210	3.47	1.12	20%	19th
12	Jesús Luzardo	MIA v PIT	x	x	x	178	3.58	1.21	21%	24th
13	Justin Steele	CHC at TEX	x	x	x	173	3.06	1.17	20%	4th
14	Yu Darvish	SDP v SFG	x	x	x	136	4.56	1.30	17%	23rd
15	Nathan Eovaldi	TEX v CHC	x	x	x	144	3.63	1.14	15%	12th
16	Mitch Keller	PIT at MIA	x	x	x	194	4.21	1.25	19%	21st
17	José Berríos	TOR at TBR	x	x	x	189	3.65	1.19	17%	4th
18	Brayan Bello	BOS at SEA	x	x	x	157	4.24	1.34	13%	14th
19	Nestor Cortes	NYY at HOU			x	63	4.97	1.25	18%	3rd
20	Garrett Crochet	CHW v DET			x	12	3.55	1.97	-2%	22nd
21	Patrick Sandoval	LAA at BAL			x	144	4.11	1.51	8%	10th
22	Miles Mikolas	STL at LAD			x	201	4.78	1.32	11%	2nd
23	Alex Wood	OAK v CLE			x	97	4.33	1.43	7%	30th
24	Frankie Montas	CIN v WSN			x	1	0.00	2.25	0%	25th
25	Josiah Gray	WSN at CIN				159	3.91	1.46	9%	10th
26	Kyle Freeland	COL at ARI				155	5.03	1.47	8%	21st
27	Spencer Strider	ATL at PHI	P	P	D	186	3.86	1.09	29%	6th
28	Freddy Peralta	MIL at NYM	P	P	D	165	3.86	1.12	23%	16th
29	Zack Wheeler	PHI v ATL	P	P	D	192	3.61	1.08	22%	1st
30	Jose Quintana	NYM v MIL	P	P	D	75	3.57	1.31	11%	18th

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

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GreggMember since 2020

1 year ago

First day of the season and the date is already wrong (should be Mar 28 not 29)! This is why Rotographs needs a Spring Training. Clean it up, Paul!

(Just kidding!)

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

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lol it’s bc my sheet automates to do the following day since it comes out day before and I forgot to fix like a dweeb!