Starting Pitcher Chart – September 24th, 2025

September 24, 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.

Board tonight, comments in the morning! (Fixed that date error)

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Starter Notes September 23, 2025

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	2025 wOBA RK
1	Hunter Greene	CIN v PIT	x	x	x	101	2.74	0.92	25%	30th
2	Garrett Crochet	BOS at TOR	x	x	x	197	2.69	1.05	26%	4th
3	Paul Skenes	PIT at CIN	x	x	x	181	2.03	0.96	23%	14th
4	Jacob deGrom	TEX v MIN	x	x	x	167	3.01	0.93	22%	22nd
5	Hunter Brown	HOU at ATH	x	x	x	180	2.30	1.01	21%	7th
6	Jesús Luzardo	PHI v MIA	x	x	x	176	4.08	1.25	20%	21st
7	Sonny Gray	STL at SFG	x	x	x	174	4.33	1.23	22%	15th
8	Max Fried	NYY v CHW	x	x	x	188	2.92	1.11	17%	17th
9	Blake Snell	LAD at ARI	x	x	x	55	2.44	1.28	18%	11th
10	Dylan Cease	SDP v MIL	x	x	x	163	4.64	1.32	20%	8th
11	Matthew Boyd	CHC v NYM	x	x	x	174	3.20	1.11	16%	15th
12	Robbie Ray	SFG v STL	x	x	x	182	3.65	1.21	15%	18th
13	Tanner Bibee	CLE v DET	x	x	x	176	4.34	1.23	14%	19th
14	Max Scherzer	TOR v BOS	x	x	x	80	5.06	1.25	16%	11th
15	Luis Castillo	SEA v COL	x	x	x	173	3.63	1.23	15%	27th
16	Ryne Nelson	ARI v LAD	x	x	x	148	3.34	1.07	14%	4th
17	Tyler Wells	BAL v TBR		x	x	17	2.04	0.62	21%	12th
18	Jonah Tong	NYM at CHC		x	x	16	5.94	1.44	19%	10th
19	Quinn Priester	MIL at SDP		x	x	152	3.25	1.21	13%	16th
20	Stephen Kolek	KCR at LAA		x	x	106	3.54	1.14	11%	26th
21	Ryan Weathers	MIA at PHI		x	x	33	3.21	1.22	13%	6th
22	Yusei Kikuchi	LAA v KCR		x	x	173	4.05	1.45	13%	26th
23	Jack Flaherty	DET at CLE			x	156	4.60	1.28	19%	28th
24	J.T. Ginn	ATH v HOU			x	86	4.57	1.32	18%	23rd
25	Andrew Alvarez	WSN at ATL			x	19	2.84	1.11	10%	14th
26	Shane Baz	TBR at BAL			x	162	4.99	1.35	16%	20th
27	Tanner Gordon	COL at SEA				72	6.00	1.46	13%	9th
28	Bryce Elder	ATL v WSN				149	5.36	1.42	11%	21st
29	Taj Bradley	MIN at TEX				136	5.20	1.34	11%	24th
30	Tyler Alexander	CHW at NYY				94	5.13	1.43	12%	2nd

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

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bo9andersonMember since 2024

2 months ago

For the final starts of my team this year, would you trot out Jacob deGrom and Hunter Brown tonight or go with Carlos Rodon and Nolan McLean tomorrow?

Ciudad FritosMember since 2023

1 month ago

Reply to bo9anderson

deGrom / Brown.

Paul SporerFanGraphs Staff

Gimme the Texas 2-step!