Dynasty Rankings: Top 50 Starting Pitchers for 2021 Fantasy Baseball

Thanks Ryan!

Man this trade keeps growing and growing!!! Fun stuff!

I don’t love Kepler or Paxton.

If you can get Luzardo instead of Paxton and Pearson instead of Kepler, I’m thinking longer about it.

As is, I see it as

Meadows for Marte (I prefer Ketel but think consensus prefers Meadows)

Ozzie for Bieber (consensus would prefer Ozzie, I think)

Corbin for Paxton And Kepler (again I think consensus would prefer your side)

So you’re losing a pinch of perceived value in all three exchanges.

However if it’s Corbin for Luzardo

Ozzie for Bieber

And Meadows for Marte

With a Pearson sweetener . . . maybe you can kick in a lesser arm like Eovaldi, Gausman or Wood if you have to, tho some players just prefer to give 4 for 3 and wouldn’t consider those guys anything more than a gesture, but you never know.

McCullers and McKay were among the last guys off the list.

MC Lance especially seemed like he could be too low if he ever puts in a 180 inning season.

Evidence suggests that could remain elusive, but he wouldn’t be the first guy to suddenly find a sustainable process that worked for him.

He was pretty inconsistent on a start-to-start basis even when he was right, but that’s not a big deal in roto.

McKay seems like a real value this year. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a young ace’s stock plummet so quickly. Everyone seems scared to buy him while they shove each other out of the way to board the Mitch Keller express. This puzzles me.

Glad to help, Poogy!

Seems extremely likely to me that we see a Bauer bounceback.

He’s never been in an organization that aligns with his thinking on how to pitch, and now he’s in an almost impossibly perfect fit for his approach.

Would not be shocked if his best season is ahead of him.

That incredible stretch he had in Cleveland was in context of one of the worst hitting divisions in my lifetime, but the NL central isn’t wallbangers row these days either.

Forced me to think on this a bit, thanks!

I might’ve overvalued the divisions.

Even elite guys have struggled to find consistency in the AL Beast (recently Snell and Paxton though injuries were involved), but I do think they’ll creep closer together as the process moves along and I just spend more time considering the decade-plus scope of the position.

Another guy I’m struggling to place is Jon Gray. He’s a buy all day for me in dynasty leagues where you’re in for the long haul, but it’s hard to rank him too high before we know here he’s headed.

Anyway I actually prefer Pearson as a prospect. Like, if their settings were reversed, I’d be borderline certain Pearson was destined for some stretches of fantasy greatness, and I’d be a bit worried about Gore in the East.

On a thirteenth hand, we have the universal DH and the possibility that Colorado fires its hapless front office. They’re really a sleeping monster if they stop trading their 11th overall picks for 5 years of Ian Desmond at 15 mill per.

Luckily they can’t do that anymore, but they would if they could.

All over the place a bit here, but you got me grinding gears on this for a while. Thanks!

Thanks Chucky!

Was one of my weird team brainfart typos, but I love how you rolled with it!

I was just thinking about the Cole contract this morning. Like, if he’s 30 in year one, and you have to pay 30 million for him to not pitch for a year, do you make the signing?

Also thought about the Mookie move.

Boston looking pretty good with that right now.

No reason they can’t make him an offer in FA, too.

What up Jacob!?

I’m trying to factor the bat into the ranking . . . not sure how to handle the huge difference in his weekly league value as compared to daily.

I like Lamet too–trade for him last year and drafted him in a start-up this winter–I just worry the two-pitch focus could hold him back.

He’s gotta find a way to decrease his pitch count per plate appearance. I like his chances a lot and bumped him up a bit while considering this response. Even if he can’t add a third consistent offering, some guys can dominate for our game with two pitches. I mean I ranked Paddack super high, and he’s got the same issue.

Anyway, thanks for the kind words!!

I’ll be thinking about pitching for a while and suspect Lamet and Paddack might creep toward each other a little. Darvish and Woodruff keep looking low to me, too.

And Skubal.

Skubal always looks low to me : )

I think Ohtani might be the no-doubt #1 in daily formats by 2021. So difficult to calculate the added value if he continues being a five-category plus with the bat on the per game basis.

Skooby dooby doo coming to a town near you!!

along with those other meddling Rock City kids