Tom Koehler (P-MIA)

Source: TG Fantasy Baseball

Marlins right-hander Tom Koehler will make his first start of the season, and second of his career, as Miami seeks a series win against Chris Capuano and the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.. Marlins right-hander Tom Koehler will make his first start of the season, and second of his career, as Miami seeks a series win against Chris Capuano and the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Source: http://mlb.mlb.com

Capuano (calf) goes five-plus in rehab outing - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Chris Capuano (calf) allowed two runs over 5 1/3 innings Wednesday in a rehab start at Triple-A Albuquerque.

Capuano (calf) to make rehab start Wednesday - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Chris Capuano (calf) will make a rehab start Wednesday with Triple-A Albuquerque.

Capuano (calf) expected to be activated May 3 - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Chris Capuano threw a bullpen session on Wednesday and reported no discomfort in his left calf.

Week Four Waiver Report

Source: Fake Teams by AnthonyCalanni

Week Three Results

Jason Vargas - 3.3 IP, 9 hits, 5 ER, 2 BB, 0 Ks, Loss

Tommy Hanson - 6 IP, 6 hits, 0 ER, 4 BB, 2 Ks, Win

Ross Detwiler - 7 IP, 7 hits, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 Ks, Win

Chris Capuano - 2 IP, 5 hits, 5 ER, 2 BB, 0 ks, Loss

Conor Gillaspie - 2-17

A.J. Pollock - 7-23, 2 RBI, 2 runs, 1 SB

Nate Schierholtz - 4-19, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 2 runs, 1

The Streamer Report: Thursday's Starting Pitcher Targets

Source: Fake Teams by Ray Guilfoyle

The Streamer Reports provides you with some streaming starting pitching options for Thursday's MLB games. The report will identify starting pitchers who are owned in less than 50% of ESPN leagues.

Before getting to Thursday's action, I want to review how my streaming picks worked out on Tuesday:

A.J. Griffin vs Astros - 6 IP, 4 hits, 2 ER, 4 BB, 8 K, ND

Chris Capuano vs Padres - 2 IP, 5 hits, 5 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, L

Chris Capuano lands on DL with strained calf - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Dodgers placed LHP Chris Capuano on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left calf.

Chris Capuano to undergo MRI on strained calf - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Chris Capuano will undergo an MRI on his strained left calf.

Chris Capuano leaves start with leg ailment - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Chris Capuano left Tuesday's start in the third inning with a left leg injury.

Draft Day Challenge, April 16

Source: Baseball Guys by Ray Flowers

Daily baseball is all the rage in the fantasy sports world, so I will be covering the game a couple of times a week here at BaseballGuys.com. To that end, I’ve partnered with DraftDay.com to give all my wonderful followers, that’s you, the chance to play the game on a daily basis. On Tuesday and Thursday’s here at the site, every week, I’ll be giving you some insight into the mind

Capuano taking Greinke's spot in LAD rotation - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Chris Capuano will take Zack Greinke's spot in the Dodgers' starting rotation.

Closing Time: Dodgers and Padres have a brawl, Zack Greinke pays the price

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

The Dodgers won the game. The Padres probably won the fight. And now fantasy owners are left to pick up the pieces.

The two So-Cal clubs were playing a nondescript 2-1 game in the bottom of the sixth Thursday night when everything exploded. Zack Greinke hit Carlos Quentin with a 3-2 pitch and Quentin took exception, charging the mound. Greinke busted his collarbone in in the ensuing melee and could miss 6-8 weeks. Quentin was ejected

Shuffle Up, Starting Pitchers: Exhuming McCarthy

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

Alright, amigos, let's get to the prices on the mound. Here's how I rank the Top 90 arms or so for the 2013 season, 5x5.

Players at the same prices are considered even. Don't worry about the numbers in an isolated sense; what matters is how the players relate to one another. I reserve the right to tweak the list as the evening goes along. Win the debate, win the rank.

And remember the golden rule: a player doesn't gain 15-20 percent of bonus value simply because you roster him.

I'm sure there's more to the preamble but it's not coming to mind right now. I'll add commentary after the US and Mexico are done on the pitch. Make the jump, jumper.

$33 Clayton Kershaw
$32 Justin Verlander
$30

Report: O's scouting Harang, Lilly, Capuano - Aaron Harang | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

Roch Kubatko of MASN reports that the Orioles continue to scout Aaron Harang, Ted Lilly and Chris Capuano from the Dodgers.

Player Profile: Hyun-Jin Ryu

Source: Baseball Guys by Ray Flowers

Normally in my Player Profile series I like to write about players who are being over drafted because of unwarranted hype, or I focus on players that can be hidden gems of production because people are underestimating their value. Today I’ll do something different. I’ll write up a player who has never thrown an official inning as a professional baseball player in North America…

WHO AM

Discount Double Check: Wily Peralta

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

The outcry has been strong, Razzball nation, and it is finally being heard. Sky, we're used to your Deep League Thoughts and Under the Greydar posts from long ago about pitchers...and by 'long ago' we mean 2012. Where's this year's Homer Bailey fantasy? This year's Chris Capuano fantasy? This year's Jon Niese fantasy? We're also used to calling you ONC and looking at a magnificent picture of Buhner? What's with the grainy pic of a unibrow guy? Bring back Bones! Well,

Pressing Questions: The Los Angeles Dodgers

Source: Roto Arcade by Dalton Del Don

After Frank McCourt sold the Dodgers for a record setting $2 billion – by far the most ever for a sports franchise, and when it comes to MLB, the next highest was $845 million in 2009 for the Cubs – to a group led by Magic Johnson (and former baseball executive Stan Kasten and the Guggenheim Partners), Los Angeles became hyper aggressive, taking on payroll as if money wasn’t an object. It started in June, when the team signed Cuban prospect Yasiel Puig to a $42 million contract, which was $6 million more than was given to Yoenis Cespedes, who was almost unanimously regarded as the better player by most scouts. But that was just the beginning, as the Dodgers then traded for Hanley

Player Profile: Paul Maholm

Source: Baseball Guys by Ray Flowers

Paul Maholm‘s name likely elicits, let’s see, a yawn? Before you lock that thought into your head as to what your reaction should be when the Braves’ lefties name as mentioned remember this:

Maholm had a better ERA than

Mets interested in Dodgers' Capuano, Harang - Chris Capuano | LA

Source: Rotoworld Baseball

The New York Post's Ken Davidoff reports that the Mets have "engaged in trade discussions" with the Dodgers regarding Chris Capuano and Aaron Harang.

2012 Positional Review – Starting Pitchers: Hits

Source: Baseball Guys by Ray Flowers

Now that the 2012 season is over, it’s time to review how my predictions went for each position in fantasy baseball. To that end, I will review my top-10 at each position and give a brief rundown on how each of the ten performed. I’ll also list which player was a “Hit” (someone who lived up to expectations) as well as a “Miss” (the player who simply failed to impress).

Note: All of these rankings are taken from the

Top 40 Starters, 2012 Fantasy Baseball

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

So, how’s everyone holding up without fantasy baseball every day?  I don’t know what to do with myself!  This weekend I wandered into a Starbucks and told the coffeerista about Giancarlo Stanton for 2013.  Then I laughed hysterically for a good twenty minutes until someone asked me to leave.  We’ve gone over the final 2012 fantasy baseball rankings for hitters and the top 20 starters.  There’s no more of these godforsaken recap posts left before we’re into 2013 fantasy baseball.  You’re welcome.  Well, there are Rudy’s recap of every fantasy sites projections that are coming on Thursday and Friday.  Those should be fun!  Hmm,

Review: Fanball & Sirius Show League

Source: Baseball Guys by Ray Flowers

Two more leagues to review. And yes, the results of these final two leagues was much better than the majority of my efforts that I’ve been detailing over the past week.

FANBALL LEAGUE

For those of you who haven’t been following my work for years, and shame on you if you haven’t, I used to work at Fanball. When the company was closed I took up my mantle as a Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio employee, something that I will discuss further when

10/2/2012: The Day the Offense Died

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

Don't feel too bad if your fantasy offense went into a 7-for-51 tailspin during Tuesday's play. Your arch rival might have fared even worse.

Make no mistake, the penultimate day of the baseball season turned into a Streaming Party. For whatever reason, offense took a complete holiday on Tuesday. Only one team, the Mariners of all clubs, scored six runs. A whopping 13 of the 15 games went under the posted total, and the other two games were pushes. Vegas projected we'd see 119.5 runs from the full slate — instead, we got 87. It felt like a backyard Wiffle Ball game, dominated by the bagel.

There were a few starting pitchers who bombed, but not too many. Captain Erratic Tommy Hanson allowed five earned

Stream Police: Can Jeremy Guthrie tame the Tigers?

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

Two more streaming days and then we're all done. Here's the Tuesday card. As always, consider everyone to be tentative and double check anything you can.

Bloc Party
Hisashi Iwakuma vs. LAA
Miguel Gonzalez at TB
Jeremy Guthrie vs. DET

Guthrie's run in Kansas City (3.18 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 16 walks, 53 strikeouts) has been too good to ignore, even with this matchup. And perhaps the Tigers will enter the game with little incentive. Guthrie does have to face Doug Fister, however; he's been very good, too.

Party Out of Bounds
Chris Carpenter vs. CIN
Barry Zito at LAD
Jacob Turner vs. NYM
Chris Capuano vs. SF
Bud Norris at CHC

The Capuano story has

RCL Roundup: October 1

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

The Rank Railheads hit the magic 120 mark in RCL 40, but panthers_freak (We’ve Got the Runs — Baseball Reasons) made a charge and now is just 2 back of the Railheads (118-116) in the Master Standings with 3 days to go.  We’ve Got the Runs is almost certain to gain half a point in Wins, so if the Railheads drop back to 119, this championship could be decided by fractions of a point.

 

However it turns out, it won’t detract from the amazing season the Rank Railheads have put together. I never thought we would see anyone reach 120 points.

The user’s guide to two-start pitchers, Week Last

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

I don't know that there's a best way to present the final 10 days of the regular season, but this is how we'll look at it.

In this post is a listing, and ranking, of every pitcher slated to work twice over the final 10 days of the season. It's as tentative as tentative can be. Some contending clubs will get ready for the post-season once a spot is secured (and maybe go easy on stars). Some non-contenders might shift into shutdown mode. We'll keep producing daily streaming pieces during the week, but if you need to plan for 10 days now, what's below is for you.

Hope you're in the finals, or fighting for a much-coveted roto title.

National League, Sept. 24-Oct. 3

Pitcher Ranks: Dodger blues

Source: Sporting News Fantasy Source Baseball

Kenley Jansen has emerged as one of the best closers in baseball, but the 24-year-old converted catcher might not pitch again this year because of an irregular heartbeat.

Jansen is set to have an examination on Tuesday. If he's cleared, he can pitch again as soon as Friday. If he's not, he'll miss at least four weeks like he did when this issue popped up last season.

Obviously, the primary concern here is Jansen's health and career. It would be a shame for such a young, talented player to have anything happen to him. In the fantasy world, there's also concern about what to do if you were counting on Jansen down the stretch.

Dodgers' manager Don Mattingly has said Ronald

Links: Twin catchers

Source: Sporting News Fantasy Source Baseball

Fantasy Source experts read far and wide in order to keep on top of everything in baseball. Here are some of the stories that interested us this week. If you see something you think is worth sharing with our readers, tweet @DavidAArnott or e-mail us.

Needs Mauer Doumit. For much of this season, I was fond of pointing out that the Blue Jays had three fantasy-starter third basemen in their lineup -- Jose Bautista, Brett Lawrie, and Edwin Encarnacion -- and that such an unusual situation might have an impact on the depth of the

Fantasy Baseball Points League: City Slickers Post

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

I’m sure you remember the scene from the seemingly forgotten classic City Slickers when Curly, played masterfully by the legendary Jack Palance, tells Billy Crystal’s character, Mitch, about that “one thing” I could have sworn when watching the other day, that he was referring to fantasy baseball, because as we well know, fantasy baseball IS LIFE! Their convo went like this here:

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Curly: [holds up one finger] This.
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit.
Mitch: But, what is the

Fantasy Baseball 2012: 2-Start Pitchers Log for Aug. 27-Sept. 2

Source: Bleacher Report MLB

For head-to-head league owners looking to squeeze out another six to nine strikeouts or one more win per week with unassuming free agents like Vance Worley, Luis Mendoza, Tommy Milone or Arizona rookie Tyler Skaggs...this list might have a purpose.

For a top-10 ranking of this week's biggest two-start stars, click here.

David Price, Rays Justin Verlander, Tigers Felix Hernandez, Mariners Chris Sale, White Sox Matt Cain, Giants Yovani

Shuffle Up: The riddle of Zack Greinke

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

I'm not trying to slander every pitcher from Angels history, it just seems that way. I'll try to tackle Frank Tanana, Mike Witt and Chris Knapp before the New Year.

You should know the Shuffle Up rules by now. We're talking 5x5 roto value for the rest of the season. This isn't a keeper-league list, and it's not an A-to-Z ranking of what they've already done. I'll add comments as the day goes along, maybe tweak a ranking here and there.

Your respectful disagreement is always welcome, just make sure you defend your argument. It's good that you disagree; that's why we have a game. Just make sure you'd adding to the discussion when you comment; respect the room, gamer. And remember the golden rule: a player doesn't add

Which Fantasy Player(s) Have Carried You This Season?

Source: Fake Teams by Ray Guilfoyle

As the follow up to last night's piece about which fantasy players ruined your 2012 season, today we talk about which players carried our fantasy teams this season.

A couple guys I drafted/own in a few leagues are Matt Kemp, Ryan Zimmerman, A.J. Burnett, Chris Capuano, and Buster Posey. In one of my leagues, the biggest money league which I participate in, I drafted Buster Posey in the 8th round,

RCL Roundup: August 13

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

The Rank Railheads (RCL 40) stumbled and panthers_freak (We’ve Got the Runs — Baseball Reasons) pounced. The Railheads dropped 4 points to 110 and now sit 2 back of the new leaders in the overall standings, despite another superb week from their pitching staff. They used only 6 starts, and came away with a perfect 6 wins. Yovani Gallardo and Chris Sale each won 2, with Kris Medlen and David Price notching the other victories. Justin Verlander starred for We’ve Got the Runs with a win, 22 strikeouts, and

Plouffe Positive

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

Trevor Plouffe is returning from the DL and that’s big news because it’s big news.  If you would’ve jumped out of a DeLorean back in March and told me I’d actually be writing a lede for Trevor Plouffe, let alone just a lede because he’s returning from the DL, I would’ve told you there’s no way Plouffe would warrant a lede and this is the information you bring back from the future?  You couldn’t find anything more inane?  Like how about you tell me what day the barista doesn’t leave enough room in my coffee for milk?  As my bumper sticker says, “I love black people, I don’t love black coffee.”  Trevor Plouffe has 19 homers and he’s owned in 41% of ESPN leagues.  I’m guessing a few

The user’s guide to two-start pitchers, Week 18

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

I know what you're thinking, gamer. Was Andy Behrens shut down early? Is he already at his word count for the 2012 MLB season? As it turns out, Behrens just needs to skip a start. He's expected to get some Ryan Zimmerman cortisone over the next day or so, and no visit with Jimmy Andrews will be required. Doc Behrens will be back in the rotation shortly.

Let's get you set up with the double-dips for Week 18.

National League

Hero Sandwich
Johnny Cueto — at MIL, at CHC
Matt Cain — at STL, vs. COL
Yovani Gallardo — vs. CIN, at HOU

Normally I wouldn't put Gallardo anywhere near these other two guys, but that "at

Tulo Acquaintances Be Forgot

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

About a month ago, Troy Tulowitzki had surgery to have scar tissue removed from his groin.  Tulo now sings, “Scar tissue that I wish you saw, because I’m kinky.”  Yesterday, the Rockies announced nothing, but people familiar with Tulo’s groin — hey now! — have said he probably won’t return this year.  ”It looks like an Asian person’s garbage can after a cat picked through it with kumquats and a baby corn.”  That’s Tulo’s groin doctor.  He was only supposed to be out for two months, but he hasn’t started any baseball activity, which is a bad sign, since, you know, you want him to play baseball.  Yo, yo, yo, what’s the best case scenario?  He returns in the last few weeks of the season,

Deep Impact: Don’t Be Such an Asset, Part I

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

Recently, Grey came out with the mid-season ranking list-o-rama and it got me thinking… perhaps I should put my head and other extremities into the arena and formulate something that can help my fellow deep league platonic lovers fulfill their fantasy list appetite. Also, perhaps I should use more punctuation. Granted, everyone loves to make a list, so the whole adventure can be considered a tired practice in certain circles. I mean, are my readers even hungry for this? Do I even have any readers? Then I remembered, I don’t care about such things, except late at night when I’m crying

Fantasy Beat – 2nd Half Pitchers

Source: Baseball Guys by Ray Flowers

Trevor Ray and Justin Fensterman discuss some key pitchers heading into the 2nd half and their predictions for them.

Chris Sale, James McDonald, Chris Capuano, Fernando Rodney

LISTEN TO THE AUDIO

The Dread Pirate Is A Swashbuckling Mofo

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

Andrew McCutchen went 3-for-4 with his 21st homer yesterday, and now has five homers in his last 4 games. On the year, he’s batting .371. For s’s and g’s, I went back to look at April comments about McCutchen when he had zero homers and only 7 RBIs through the first month. Y’all are ridiculously fickle. Or refickulous, if portmanteaus do it for you. BTW, if anyone out there wants to open a store selling pickles, I’d go with the name, That’s Repickulous! Gotta have the exclamation mark, too. Some of those comments from April go like this, “I don’t understand this site’s man crush on Andrew McCutchen. He’s not worth where you ranked him, and this comment is written by a man who actually

The Dread Pirate Is One Swashbuckling Mofo

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

Andrew McCutchen went 3-for-4 with his 21st homer yesterday, and now has five homers in his last 4 games.  On the year, he’s batting .371.  For s’s and g’s, I went back to look at April comments about McCutchen when he had zero homers and only 7 RBIs through the first month.  Y’all are ridiculously fickle.  Or refickulous, if portmanteaus do it for you.  BTW, if anyone out there wants to open a store selling pickles, I’d go with the name, That’s Repickulous!  Gotta have the exclamation mark, too.  Some of those comments from April go like this, “I don’t understand this site’s man crush on Andrew McCutchen.  He’s not worth where you ranked him, and this comment is written by a man who

The user’s guide to two-start pitchers, Week 16

Source: Roto Arcade by Andy Behrens

Well...it's an ugly week for two-start pitchers, gamers. The All-Star break allowed teams to reset rotations, so a big batch of No. 4-6 starters were dumped into Week 16. You won't find many high-quality pitchers double-dipping. Sorry 'bout that.

The dude pictured above, Milwaukee right-hander Michael Fiers, brings excellent ratios into his two-start week, but he's facing a pair of degree-of-difficulty match-ups (STL, at CIN). Fiers has whiffed 50 batters over 46.2 frames so far this season, he's issued only nine walks, and he's delivered a 2.31 ERA and 1.07 WHIP. He's certainly not getting it done with velocity (88.1 mph average fastball), but his control has been great, his curve is a nasty thing, and his cutter and

Pitcher Profile: Trevor Bauer Makes Quick Work of the AAA Dodgers

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

After an up-and-down four-inning debut, then a real stinker against the Padres, Arizona’s prized pitching prospect Trevor Bauer was in dire need of a positive outing in his third start heading into the All-Star break.  With the Diamondbacks hoping to push for a Wild Card berth, and with Bauer on top of many pitching prospect lists, he has a lot of eyes on him to deliver a solid rookie season.

Having a strong year ERA wise in AAA (2.82), Bauer was having continual issues with his command yielding a 1.43 WHIP and a 4.43 walk rate through 44.2 innings.

So what kind of second half should we expect from Bauer?  Surely owned in most keeper and dynasty leagues, is Bauer trustworthy enough to make an impact in

2012 Fantasy Baseball All-Star Squads

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

Welcome to the 1st annual Razzball All-Star squads!  These squads disregard any selections made by fans, Tony LaRussa, and Ron Washington as their focus is skewed towards a player’s value to their actual employer vs. potential 2012 fantasy baseball teams.

We’ve got four All-Star squads – all leveraging the $ estimates in our Player Rater.  This is based on 12-team mixed leagues using the ESPN standard roster format:

Performance All-Stars – These are the most valuable players for fantasy baseball in the 1st half of 2012. Value All-Stars – These are the best values based on the difference of their season-to-date value vs.

Plouffe, there it is: Meet the 2012 Wiggys

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

The same thing happens in every March draft. You walk away from the computer or the war room and think "we drained the depth pretty well. The waiver wire is going to be skank all year."

And then the unknowns come out of nowhere, the surprise stories, the fun pickups and the lucrative pickups. And on my clipboard, I like to call them The Wiggys.

Ty Wigginton, our patron saint, represents so much that's good and right about fantasy baseball. He had a 24-homer season with Tampa Bay in 2006, a spike pretty much out of nowhere. He routinely qualifies at a bunch of different positions. He's usually out there on the wire, ready to go for free when you need him. And sometimes it's more fun to win your

RCL Roundup: July 3

Source: Razzball by grey@razzball.com (Grey Albright)

The Fugs (Epic Beardmen Division) regained top spot in the Master standings, moving up 5 positions with help from a pitching staff that recorded a 1.70 ERA and 0.91 WHIP. Yovani Gallardo and Madison Bumgarner paced The Fugs, while Gio Gonzalez added 2 wins despite throwing only 11 innings and giving up 8 runs. captainpyper (RCL 3) dropped to 2nd, 2 points back, while last week’s co-leader MattTruss223 (Rube Waddell’s Shiny Objects — Magnificent Mustachioed Men) fell to 6th place, tied with NYC Matthole (Ones are GOOD, right?), who rose 9 spots. Rank Railheads

Week 14 Two Start Pitcher Rankings

Source: Fantasy Baseball Dugout by BeeZee

Are you two-start pitcher streaming? If not, you’re likely missing out on a great opportunity to increase your weekly strikeout total, win total, log more innings pitched, and potentially lower your team ERA and WHIP in head to head leagues that allow daily lineup changes.

Some leagues don’t allow such activity by limiting the number of player adds you can make each week. However, if you can find a loophole in your league settings and add/drop pitchers all season long – you’re going to have a great chance to win the whole thing come September!

For the fifth consecutive season, we

Fantasy Baseball 2-Start Pitchers: 7/2/12-7/8/12

Source: Bleacher Report MLB

Here’s a breakdown of the two-start pitchers for the week of July 2nd-8th.

 

Five Stars

Zack Greinke: MIA (Sanchez), @HOU (Keuchel)

 

Four Stars

A.J. Burnett: HOU (Keuchel), SF (Lincecum)

Johnny Cueto: @LAD (Capuano), @SD (Cashner)

Tommy Hanson: CHC (Samardzija), @PHI (Worley)

James McDonald: HOU (Lyles), SF (Vogelsong)

Jered Weaver: @CLE (Jimenez), BAL (Hammel)

Vance Worley: @NYM (Niese), ATL (Hanson)

Jordan Zimmermann: SF (Lincecum), COL (Friedrich)

 

Three Stars

Trevor Bauer: SD (Cashner), LAD (Capuano)

Trevor Cahill: SD (Richard), LAD (Billingsley)

Wei-Yin Chen: @SEA

The user’s guide to two-start pitchers, Week 14

Source: Roto Arcade by Andy Behrens

In the aftermath of last week's Eovaldi-Archer-Grimm debacle (17 earned runs and counting), and in consideration of my pathological inability to bench Hector Noesi in A.L.-only, I'm currently serving a five-day suspension from pitching analysis. Self-imposed. No appeals. Have to sit myself down, watch video, make some adjustments. If you need pitching pick-ups, go here. I'm not going to hype anyone in today's introduction, because I'd hate to damage yet another young pitcher's career.

I will, however, arrange all of next week's two-start pitchers according to their relative safety and usefulness. Because someone

Shuffle Up: Where are you, Dan Haren?

Source: Roto Arcade by Scott Pianowski

Of all the Shuffle Ups, this is the one that really matters. Today we tackle the starting pitchers, the ultimate fluctuation stock.

Usual shuffle rules apply. Assume a 5x5 rotisserie league, this year only. The rankings reflect how I'd attack a start-fresh league that begins right now. Players at the same price are considered even, and don't obsess over the actual dollar figure: what matters is how the players relate to one another.

I'll add comments later in the day and tweak the rankings a little bit. Your intelligent and respectful disagreement is always welcome, but make sure you include some reasoning. Further the conversation. Be good to the room. Be good to yourself.

Anyone on the DL or in