Starting Pitcher Chart – May 7th, 2024

May 7, 2024

Do you ever bust your ass to finish your work super early so you can have a night on the couch watching tv w/your gf and go to bed early only to not hit the publish button and end up posting that piece the following morning?

Yeah, me neither……🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Drop any questions you have in the comments. Feels like a pretty straightforward slate outside of the 2-x guys being tough decisions for shallower formats.

Starter Notes May 7, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK L30
1	Corbin Burnes	BAL at WSN	x	x	x	41	2.61	0.92	20%	25th
2	Zach Eflin	TBR v CHW	x	x	x	41	4.17	1.17	19%	29th
3	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD v MIA	x	x	x	34	2.91	1.09	24%	26th
4	Shota Imanaga	CHC v SDP	x	x	x	34	0.78	0.75	23%	25th
5	Zac Gallen	ARI at CIN	x	x	x	32	3.38	1.22	20%	27th
6	Reynaldo López	ATL v BOS	x	x	x	30	1.50	1.00	18%	6th
7	Bailey Ober	MIN v SEA	x	x	x	31	4.55	1.04	17%	15th
8	José Berríos	TOR at PHI	x	x	x	43	1.44	1.01	11%	4th
9	Cristopher Sánchez	PHI v TOR	x	x	x	29	3.68	1.53	12%	15th
10	Justin Verlander	HOU at NYY	x	x	x	17	2.08	1.15	9%	3rd
11	Seth Lugo	KCR v MIL	x	x	x	45	1.60	1.02	11%	2nd
12	Kutter Crawford	BOS at ATL		x	x	40	1.56	1.07	16%	16th
13	Luis Gil	NYY v HOU		x	x	31	3.19	1.16	15%	17th
14	José Buttó	NYM at STL		x	x	28	2.57	1.07	15%	22nd
15	Logan Allen	CLE v DET		x	x	12	2.25	0.83	6%	5th
16	Kyle Harrison	SFG at COL			x	33	4.09	1.24	19%	12th
17	Patrick Sandoval	LAA at PIT			x	32	5.91	1.69	15%	24th
18	Kenta Maeda	DET at CLE			x	28	5.02	1.22	13%	19th
19	Quinn Priester	PIT v LAA			x	16	3.31	1.29	7%	11th
20	Colin Rea	MIL at KCR			x	33	2.67	1.22	8%	10th
21	Jack Leiter	TEX at OAK				3	17.18	3.00	0%	12th
22	Miles Mikolas	STL v NYM				38	5.68	1.39	13%	8th
23	Trevor Williams	WSN v BAL				31	2.27	1.17	8%	13th
24	Frankie Montas	CIN v ARI				19	4.19	1.45	5%	28th
25	Edward Cabrera	MIA at LAD				15	5.28	1.43	22%	1st
26	Ross Stripling	OAK v TEX				40	4.24	1.34	11%	7th
27	Emerson Hancock	SEA at MIN				30	4.75	1.29	11%	9th
28	Randy Vásquez	SDP at CHC				7	5.87	1.83	5%	21st
29	Michael Soroka	CHW at TBR				33	6.48	1.62	-2%	20th
30	Dakota Hudson	COL v SFG				30	5.93	1.68	1%	18th

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.

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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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JimMember since 2016

1 year ago

Are you watching baseball with the girlfriend? If not, what?

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

Reply to Jim

Some night yes, she’s very open to baseball nights where we’re just on the couch doing puzzles, playing board games, etc… but last night was hers so we watched the Met Gala red carpet, which I quite enjoyed despite not really understanding high fashion all that well

Reply to Paul Sporer

Well, watching the Met Gala is certainly better than watching the Mets.