Stream, Stream, Stream: 2x SP 9.22-9.28

First a look at the running totals through half of week 23:

46-34 record
3.77 ERA
7.6 K/9
2.8 K/BB
1.29 WHIP

Here’s a look at this week’s recs, with team wOBA in parentheses:

Danny Duffy – 28.6% ESPN/39% Y!/66% own, 28% start CBS – @CLE (.314), @CWS (.314)

There’s some risk associated with starting Duffy here, as he’s coming off having his last start skipped and has been out since coming out of a start against the Yankees Sept. 6. But there can be virtually no qualms about Duffy’s skill set and that’s about all we can go on here. Duffman has a 2.44 ERA and .591 OPS allowed since moving into the rotation in early May, and his month-by-month ERA over that span goes like this:

4.00
1.69
2.01
2.41

Get this guy in your lineups.

Ricky Nolasco – 0.9% ESPN/13% Y!/13% own, 5% start CBS – v. ARI (.300), @DET (.333)

I can hear the collective grumbling but hear this one out. I have heard your grumbles that not enough of these guys are available in deeper leagues, so I dug in for this one. Nolasco — who incidentally plays for the nine most local to me — has had a cataclysmic season to say the least. However, since getting beat up to end August, he’s been fantastic this month: 1.35 ERA, 15-3 K/BB rate, .590 OPS allowed. And gets the brutal Diamondbacks before ending his awful first AL season against the Tigers. That’s going to be a tough one, but for what it’s worth Nolasco has handled Detroit rather well this year (3 ER in 13.1 IP).

Josh Collmenter -7.0% ESPN/13% Y!/35% own, 22% start CBS – @MIN (.317), v. STL (.309)

Collmenter has been really good for the Diamondbacks this year in relative anonymity/obscurity, and in recent starts he’s been very good about rolling more grounders — a trait that’ll play up anywhere, but especially at his home park. The Twins matchup is odd; they’ve had a good offense this season but the interleague matchups are always tough to peg who’ll have the upper hand. But at this point who’d think the Cardinals would be giving eight points of wOBA to the Twins in the last week of the season? That’s rather inexplicable. Anyway, Collmenter has been better in the second half (3.26 ERA, 6.2 K/9, .643 OPS allowed), and is a fine pickup in the mold of the usual non-sexy/solid if unspectacular mold that you’ve grown accustomed to in this space over the past three seasons.

And on that note, this is the last column of its type for this season. Thank you for tuning in at least once. If you have suggestions for how to improve this piece moving forward into 2015, please feel free to share below!