Starting Pitcher Chart – September 27th, 2021

With the season winding down, I wanted to find something that would be useful for those still contending in their leagues. I decided to do something that isn’t particularly new, but we don’t have it here at the site: a starting pitcher chart for the day’s slate of games. I’ll include their performance over the last five starts, their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness, and then my start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues.

Obviously 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. For the weekend, Justin & I will use the Friday podcast to discuss the relevant weekend streamers. By popular demand, these will start coming out the day before the slate in question.

Starting Monday September 20th, I’m loosening my thresholds for streamer gambles. If you are protecting ratios, you should continue to be careful and manage as you see fit, but these recommendations are catering more to a “go-for-it” attitude over these final two weeks.

September 27th Starter Chart
PITCHER TM OPP 10 12 15+ L5 STATS OPP wOBA L30 days NOTE
Cal Quantrill CLE KCR x x x 2.12 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 12% K-BB .305 – 20th Has allowed more than 3 ER just once since 7/1 (2.12 ERA)
Chris Flexen 플렉센 SEA OAK x x x 3.68 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 11% K-BB .324 – 11th Has allowed more than 3 ER just 2 since 6/9 (3.03 ERA)
Brady Singer KCR at CLE x x x 3.03 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 16% K-BB .290 – 27th Good matchup, solid pitcher
Cole Irvin OAK at SEA x x 5.76 ERA, 1.68 WHIP, 11% K-BB .298 – 23rd Found his footing again w/3 straight useful starts
Reiver Sanmartin CIN PIT x potential MLB debut .269 – 28th Some outlets have him starting; 26% K, 14% SwStr in AAA
Germán Márquez COL WAS 6.12 ERA, 1.68 WHIP, 7% K-BB .339 – 5th Toting a 7.51 ERA over his L8, lots of risk here
Josiah Gray WAS at COL 9.26 ERA, 1.77 WHIP, 7% K-BB .300 – 18th I dare you to use a 2.7 HR9 in Coors
Matt Manning DET CWS 5.32 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 7% K-BB .322 – 12th Solid in his last 2 but still too risky of a matchup for me
Dallas Keuchel CWS at DET 8.27 ERA, 2.43 WHIP, 0% K-BB .326 – 12th B2B 2 ER outings not nearly enough to entice me here
Cody Ponce PIT at CIN last GS was 1.7 IP on 7/3 .317 – 13th Has just 2 starts in 13 appearances this yr
*home vR for COL





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