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Hello, friends.

The All-Star break is still a few weeks away but the true halfway point of the season is officially upon us, with most teams having now crossed the 80-game mark. This season, seemingly more so than recently, has a number of starting pitchers who have popped up out of the ADP hinterlands to be unexpected fantasy stars.

There are currently 10 starting pitchers in the top-50 by total value according to the FanGraphs auction calculator (12-team, 5x5) who entered the season with a post-250 ADP. Found treasure, indeed. The real question is if you can count on them to continue being so shiny, or whether their gold-plating will soon reveal a heart of rust.

If you have one of these secret aces, you're no doubt over the moon about it but we still have a lot of season left before you can hoist championship gold. We should probably try and sort out the chaff before assuming you can continue to rely on your found gold.

Let's take a deeper dive into one you should trust and one you should not, before finishing up with an old-fashioned, lightning round for another pair of arms. Because who doesn't love lightning rounds?

The commies, Jimmy. The commies.

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Hello, friends.

Considering we're well past Stabilization Day, let's check in on one of my favorite topics to leverage for fantasy success: team splits. This might not be late-breaking news and/or rocket science but attacking teams via their performances with different splits continues to be one of the easiest ways to guide your streaming decisions.

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Hello, friends.

As I end a three-day fog of little kids' softball games, swim meets, and birthday parties, let's use one of my (and many people's) favorite pitching stats to predict future success, CSW%.

CSW% is lovely not only for its usefulness but also for the sheer simplicity. You take a pitcher's called strikes, add them to his swinging ones, and divide by their total pitches. Bingo-bango, you have CSW%, a stat that consistently has some of the highest returns when it comes to predicting strikeout rates.

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