![]() ![]() ![]() Josh Hayes / Real Talk Raph - RotoBaller.Glenn & Rick & Stacie - Colton, Stern & Wolfman.Here's who I was drafting with, along with the full results from this draft: Here's what my team ended up looking like: Anderson might get there, as could Irvin, but I probably won't get much more than volume out of either if they give me average-ish ratios, I'll be thrilled. But I'm not sure any of them is a good bet for even 160 innings, and Cabrera, Whitlock, and Rogers aren't especially good bets to do it either. They're all super talented and should have good per-inning numbers. 3, 4, and 5 starters, not at the top of my rotation. Of course, I tend to like those guys as my No. And Sandoval remains a very intriguing option, a breakout pick for both Scott White and myself. Detmers already broke out after returning from the minors last season, putting up a 3.04 ERA and 26% strikeout rate over his final 13 starts, and is now apparently throwing two mph harder than he did last season. Lodolo is a popular breakout pick, armed with a wipeout curveball that already stands as one of the better putaway pitches in the game. To be clear, I'm a big fan of all of the pitchers I got. For one thing, I've got three Angels pitches, and while I think all three of them are pretty good pitchers, the fact that they'll be pitching in a six-man rotation means they've got a ceiling on their innings, both on a weekly and season-long basis. And it probably isn't enough, as presently constructed, to compete. That's the bulk of my pitching staff I added Dylan Floro, Drey Jameson, Josiah Gray, and Cole Irvin to round it out. I had the eighth pick out of 14 in this standard 5x5 league, and started with the following players: I tried the latter strategy in my draft for the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association Champions League this week, a 14-team Roto league with some folks from around the Fantasy industry. Sure, you probably won't get those staff anchors who can raise the floor and ceiling of your team, but there should be enough intriguing talents out there to more or less punt the position and still have a chance to compete. You could steer into the curve, take advantage of a friendlier environment for pitchers, and eschew the position entirely for a while. That gives me a strong base for ratios and counting stats, and lets me take a lot more high-upside fliers on cheap pitchers later.īut there's another option for how you can approach starting pitcher this year. My preferred approach in most leagues looks something like that – I want two starting pitchers I can reasonably project for good ratios and 180-plus innings, which means I'm usually taking two of them by the sixth round. ![]() You can zig when everyone is zagging, taking advantage of the depressed prices for some of the true aces and snag a couple of them early. If pitching is cheaper in Fantasy Baseball drafts than it has been in a long time – and it is – you have a couple of options for how to respond when building your team. ![]()
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