Every Monday during the season, I will be releasing "The List" where I rank the current value of the Top 100 pitchers in fantasy baseball for the rest of the season. Use these rankings to help understand what to expect from pitchers for 2017 and as a tool to gauge trade value in your fantasy leagues.
Let's see how the SP landscape has changed:
Any thoughts about Drew Smyly rest of the season?
My guess is early July/ASB return for Smyly, where he could be a solid second half performer – around the 40s or so.
It’s hard to tell at this point and if you somehow have a DL spot open or want a stash, you could do worse.
Given the volatility of starters this year in 12 teamers, though, I’d rather have more lottery tickets on my roster at this point.
Nick, as a new fantasy baseball team owner, from years past roughly how many starting arms are you usually comfortable owning (IE, are obviously worth holding instead of using streaming options)? I assume there’s less variance later in the year after things have ironed themselves out a bit, right?
In your standard 5×5 12 teamer, I like to shoot for about eight-nine starts a week. That dictates six to seven starters on my roster. From there, it depends on my opponent to see if I’ll need maybe one or two more starts.
This year, I think I have about six stable options and use the others slots on a week-to-week basis.
Not Nick but can tell you that this definitely depends on the league. For example, if the maximum moves per week is only 1 then the number of pitchers you want to hold goes up drastically. However if you have infinite moves/week then streaming becomes way more viable again.
Great point!
Worried about T Ross after those last two rehab starts?
I am a bit, though it could be one of those situations where he simply needs more time on the hill instead of a long slump that carries on deep into the season. He’s an obvious DLH situation when he gets back and we’ll wait-and-see.
What do you like about Bundy so much? Poor peripherals and pitching in a tough home ballpark in the AL beast with the Jays now reloaded.
Bundy and Taillon are both on the waiver wire, as of this week. Which would you drop Odorizzi for? (ESPN standard category H2H 10 team league)
(or, drop maeda as well, and try grabbing them both)
Drop Maeda + Odorizzi for Bundy + Taillon
Thanks, Nick!
Would you consider Volquez’s stuff good enough to be a cherry bomb after his no-hitter?
hi Nick! I have GCole but Nola, ArSanchez, Biagini are on waivers. Is cole worth dropping for them? I know hes ranked higher but hes not looking like he did before. I have Kersh, Scherz, Manaea, AWood, DPom, and Vargas also on my team.
I’d rather own Nola than Cole.
Good Call! At least for last night he was definitely the right pick up!
What is wrong with DeGrom?