What is happening. I’m continuing last week’s shift in format as I’m ranking the Top 100 Starting Pitchers for the rest of the season while including their estimated ROS schedule....
What is happening. I'm continuing last week's shift in format as I'm ranking the Top 100 Starting Pitchers for the rest of the season while including their estimated ROS schedule. Check out last week's article for a refresher on how this is being done, and now let's look at an updated strength of schedule table as I've made a few changes -remember, I've sorted teams into five tiers of Top, Good, Average, Weak, and Bottom.
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Hey Nick,
Why are you so low on The Dirty Cheerleader? His ROS schedule isn’t too bad, so I’m surprised to see guys like Manaea and Taillon ranked above him.
Hey man! Sorry I wasn’t able to get back to you before about Nelson.
High WHIP + low IPS = limited ceiling. It is really close with Manaea, Taillon, Roark, Hendricks, etc.
No worries, I know how busy you are! I started him and it turned out quite well.
And that’s what I figured in regards to Pomeranz. I may hold him just based on his ROS schedule, the fact that Manaea doesn’t look quite right, and because Taillon vs. MIL makes me nervous (however, I think his matchup against the Cubs next will be quite telling as to future performance).
Taillon vs the Brewers shouldn’t make you that nervous…
Yo Nick! Thoughts on Brandon Woodruff for a deep league pickup for next week?
He’s expected to have two starts against the Pirates and Marlins and while I think he’s not a bad streaming option for the Pirates, I’d have some hesitation trusting him against the likes of Stanton, Ozuna and Co.
If you need the two starts, you could do worse than Woodruff.
Man this is super helpful. Thanks!
Any plans from any one on the site to write up on the best underrated/lesser owned pitchers to stream for the playoffs?
no Urena? looking at Dan Strailys ROS matchups, seems Jose should make your top 100. or maybe I’m an idiot and should drop him for kirk gibson. thanks-good stuff!
I really dislike Urena, over 5.00 FIP/xFIP, under 7.00 K/9…it’s not a great gamble in my mind even with a decent schedule ahead.
Not sure how you get Maeda’s matchups. Given he’s got ARZ today (9/6) and the LAD six-man rotation, it looks like he’s @SFG (9/12), @PHI (9/19) and SDP (9/25). Not much different, but still.
You’re totally right. Six-man rotation messes it up a little bit and I’ll look into this for Monday’s update.
Great, thanks. But since we started talking about this, it sounds like LAD will go back to a five-man rotation “at some point” to set up for the playoffs, and Maeda might get bumped. Real MLB messing with our fantasy game! Good luck figuring this out!