Stream, Stream, Stream: #2xSP (8.3-8.9)

Hey, sorry for the late posting but I wanted to make sure we got through the trade deadline unscathed, and I’m also amidst moving into a new home over the weekend. As a result, those two things conspired to make this a late submission, but it’s the best I could do.

Here are the totals halfway through week 15 (with updates from previous listing):

22-39 record (1-3)
4.67 ERA (+0.13)
6.6 K/9 (+0.1)
2.2 K/BB (no change)
1.42 WHIP (+0.01)

Here’s a look at this week’s recs, with team wOBA in parentheses. Y! ownership numbers pulled courtesy of twitter pal @davidwiers, whom you should give a follow:

RHP Ervin Santana – 47.3% ESPN/50% Y! – @TOR (.337), @CLE (.310)

Big Erv’s been good in three starts and brutal in a pair over his first five starts with the Twins. Still, he’s the kind of talent that is rarely available in these sorts of things, as he is rarely owned in under 50% of leagues. Having watched all five starts so far, I’m not quite sure what to expect from Santana this week. At times he’s flashed a good penchant for inducing grounders and getting strikeouts, and and at other times he’s struggled to work within the strike zone while relying heavily on fly balls. Santana is a gamble this week — especially in Toronto — but it’s one I’m oddly more comfortable with than most over the course of this rough season.

RHP Nate Karns – 26.8% ESPN/29% Y! – @CWS (.297), v. NYM (.291)

Six of Karns’ last seven starts have resulted in two or fewer earned runs, though if memory serves his blowup — seven earned runs against the Royals — came in a week where I had recommended him as well. Karns has put together a nice season — 3.37 ERA, 3.74 FIP — and I absolutely love both of these matchups for him. Even though the Mets have improved their offense considerably since the trade deadline, it’s still a team that is dead last in team wOBA. Yoenis Cespedes obviously helps, though.

LHP Patrick Corbin – 32.5% ESPN/25% Y! – @WAS (.309), v. CIN (.315)

Aside from a three home run blowup against the Mets, Corbin has been solid in his five-start run since returning from Tommy John surgery. He’s got more than a strikeout per inning — 29 in 28 frames — with good groundball rates (50.7 percent), and is getting a couple of middle-of-the-road offenses. Cincinnati on the road helped sway me, but if you’re wondering the other names considered this week were Zack Godley, Mike Foltynewicz, Jesse Chavez and Danny Duffy.