Starting Pitcher Chart – May 1st, 2024

May 1, 2024

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Starter Notes May 1, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK
1	Corbin Burnes	BAL v NYY	x	x	x	35	2.55	0.93	20%	4th
2	Zack Wheeler	PHI at LAA	x	x	x	37	1.93	0.88	24%	17th
3	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD at ARI	x	x	x	28	3.54	1.07	27%	26th
4	Kutter Crawford	BOS v SFG	x	x	x	33	1.35	1.11	17%	13th
5	Chris Sale	ATL at SEA	x	x	x	31	3.69	0.92	21%	25th
6	Shota Imanaga	CHC at NYM	x	x	x	27	0.98	0.80	23%	10th
7	Bailey Ober	MIN at CHW	x	x	x	25	4.21	1.05	18%	30th
8	Zach Eflin	TBR at MIL	x	x	x	35	4.08	1.19	18%	2nd
9	Zac Gallen	ARI v LAD	x	x	x	32	3.38	1.22	20%	1st
10	Justin Verlander	HOU v CLE	x	x	x	10	1.74	1.06	17%	20th
11	Joe Musgrove	SDP v CIN	x	x	x	35	6.94	1.66	9%	22nd
12	Chris Bassitt	TOR v KCR	x	x	x	30	5.64	1.85	9%	12th
13	José Buttó	NYM v CHC	x	x	x	22	2.86	1.09	14%	18th
14	Luis Gil	NYY at BAL		x	x	24	4.01	1.34	15%	6th
15	Quinn Priester	PIT at OAK		x	x	10	3.48	1.16	14%	29th
16	Trevor Williams	WSN at TEX			x	26	2.70	1.05	11%	10th
17	Patrick Sandoval	LAA v PHI			x	27	6.33	1.78	11%	8th
18	Kenta Maeda	DET v STL			x	22	5.96	1.37	10%	25th
19	Seth Lugo	KCR at TOR			x	38	1.66	1.11	9%	19th
20	Graham Ashcraft	CIN at SDP			x	28	4.40	1.29	16%	5th
21	Miles Mikolas	STL at DET			x	32	5.91	1.47	13%	24th
22	Roddery Muñoz	MIA v COL			x	5	3.60	0.60	33%	16th
23	Triston McKenzie	CLE at HOU			x	22	4.91	1.68	1%	7th
24	Andrew Heaney	TEX v WSN			x	23	6.26	1.26	13%	20th
25	Emerson Hancock	SEA v ATL				26	5.06	1.12	13%	3rd
26	Colin Rea	MIL v TBR				27	3.25	1.27	8%	21st
27	Ross Stripling	OAK v PIT				34	4.98	1.49	11%	27th
28	Dakota Hudson	COL at MIA				24	6.57	1.78	1%	28th
29	Chris Flexen 플렉센	CHW v MIN				24	5.11	1.34	3%	14th
30	Daulton Jefferies	SFG at BOS				2	22.50	4.50	6%	8th

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 (notes will be more statistical-based once we get some sample to work with). 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 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 value focusing on roto.

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Master Live 013Member since 2023

1 year ago

Paul, what’s your evaluation of Hunter Brown’s start yesterday? 7 k’s on 22 batters faced is the bright spot and not much else. Should I hold?

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

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It’s kind of a C+ outing for me. Still 6 ER and 2 HR. I’m OK holding, but he’s FAR from a must-start. Such a tough guy to figure so far this year. I still believe in the overall talent profile, but I understand that patience is wearing thin for shallow leaguers