Hello, friends.
With the trade deadline behind us and rosters mostly settled, it's time to take one final crack at identifying the teams you should be going out of your way to stream against, and who should be avoided whenever possible.
With waiver-wires long since picked clean, finding valuable streamers is your quickest way to big changes in your standings as we enter the championship run. But as the white-haired lothario, Kenny Rogers, once opined, it's also about knowing when to fold 'em. As the season dwindles, so too must your spectrum of usable starters, at least compared to what it was early in the season, given how much more information you're working with. Obviously, that starts with knowing much more about team offenses now than we did in May, but just as big of a decision driver should be your own individual league circumstances.
We're no longer in the willy-nilly times of spring and early summer; if you're hunting for a championship in the middle of August, you can't just throw out every reasonable start you have available. The closer we get to the end, the more particular you might need to be, honing in on the categories you need to push, or possibly sacrificing any you can afford to. That might mean opening up your spectrum of usability for a team that's sneakily been in the dumps against a certain hand (like the Dodgers vs LHPs), or tightening it almost all the way up to avoid a power-surger (Toronto vs RHPs).
We'll tackle what to do with right-handers first, starting by splitting the season into two (unavoidably) arbitrary samples, using April through June, and post-July as our borders. We'll also use runs scored as a jumping off point, but let's first acknowledge the limitations of using team runs scored versus a particular hand. IE. It's not as black and white as the numbers suggest, given inherited runners, pitcher switches, etc.
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Chase burns and eury Perez are guys to watch since they both can get a lot of strikeouts despite having low pitch counts
Sandy Alcantara could also get better especially if they keep winning and the marlins let him get 100 pitches
Oh my eyes, I can’t unsee that embedded animation
Would love a way to be able to minimize these fantasy baseball posts.
You could just not click on them.
Why can’t you make these niche subjects like fantasy baseball part of the paywall and bring other things back?
What would you have them bring back?
The end of the year individual team analyses for one..
A novel!!!
This is a great post. I didn’t read it, I just marveled at the Big Lebowski gifs. Absolutely sensational!
Can you please learn how to use “i.e.”? It’s not “IE.” This is just confusing. It’s “i.e.,”