I don't like Dan Straily. Well okay, maybe as a person I have to hand it to him for his journey and continued perseverance to figure out his repertoire, etc. but it is just so frustrating trying to explain why I don't want to own this guy in my leagues and last night's 7.0 IP, 2 ER, 4 Hits, 0 BBs, 14 Ks is just one giant eye-roll to me. Think Hinox in Breath of the Wild. But Nick, why do you dislike Straily? Because his Fastball is pretty dang meh and while his Slider can carry him through strikeouts from time to time, he's going to burn you more than help. Great example is his current season, where his first three starts accrued just 13.2 innings with nine walks and just 10 Ks. Nine walks! But now Straily goes against the Padres and everything is so skewed and making everyone go "Ohhhhh what if?!" Stupid Padres ruining everything. You know how many games Straily has had more than 8 Ks in since 2014? Just one. ONE. Moreso, since the start of 2016, Straily fanned five or fewer batters in 75% of his starts. That's what you're dealing with here, a guy who is going to be so boring each week and heavily risk you getting burned. I guess I'm fine starting him against the Padres and maybe one or two other teams in the majors. That's it. Yay.
Let’s see how every other SP did yesterday:
How worried are you about Arrieta, if at all? His velocity is down by a few MPH (despite the new measurement method tending to inflate velocity by a couple MPH relative to last year.
Currently pondering my CarGo and Benoit for his Arrieta and Nola in a 10 team H2H redraft with OBP, SLG, QS, K/9, SVH — seems like a good deal but I’m concerned about Arrieta. I have sufficient OF depth.
I think you still make that deal.
What about CarGo for DeGrom & a decent reliever? Still like Arrieta more?
If you need the depth, I’d go Arrieta + Nola.
If you don’t, I’d go deGrom.
In a vacuum I go Arrieta + Nola.
I benched Lynn, but he is showing me something here. Granted Brewers are strikeout machines, but against a fastball heavy guy like Lynn I thought a few would carry out of Milwaukee (Robbie Ray syndrome.) Lynn and E.Santana have become must-starts for me until I start seeing a string of bad starts (or poor matchup, like Coors)
Sorry to be frank, but Ray doesn’t give up the longballs because of the heater. It’s because he has a terrible third pitch and his Slider is inconsistent.
And that’s totally rational for Santana/Lynn. I don’t think Santana will keep this up but there’s little reason not to run him now until he hits the wall.
should I trade Dylan Bundy for Edwin Diaz?
I think you can get more at this point.
what about bundy, cespedes and pujols for herrera, diaz and carpenter?
or bundy for wade davis
Degrom was intentionally walking Bryce Harper, just in case your are just checking box scores and not watching the actual game.