Two Start Pitchers, Week 24: Holy Calamity, Scream Lynnsanity

1. I wouldn’t dare starting Trevor Williams at Chicago, but is he worth a start @SF? Streamonator has it at -$1.6, but the projected line isn’t too ugly as far as ERA and WHIP go. I just need solid innings since I’m benching Berrios and Paxton in Boston.

   • No. Still wouldn’t start him only at SF. Has to be a better 1 start streaming option out there.

2. Lester pitched today

   • Thanks! They swapped Lester/Hendricks for match-up purposes. Hopefully that works better for Hendricks than it did Lester.

3. Kyle Hendricks switched with Lester making him a 2 start

   • Thanks!

4. “Jon Lester and James Paxton have both been a roller coaster ride after the All Star break.”

   Not sure why you would say that about Paxton. He has won every single one of his last 7 starts, with a 2.98 ERA. a 0.95 WHIP, and a K/9 of 10.8 over that period. Yeah, he had some rough spots before that, but he has been killing it since the calendar turned to Auguste. (I should know, I traded him away just before that 7th last start.)

   • Post ASB and last 7 aren’t quite the same thing. I’d imagine the bad starts in July are why you traded him in August. One of those 7 includes a 5 IP, 4 ER outing, but you’re right that he has gotten it together here at the end of the season.

     • Yeah, I agree what you said was factual because you referred to post-ASG and not “since August 1”, but it just seemed like a comment missing the forest for the trees … like captioning a nude photo of Alicia Vikander as “woman with green background” :-)

       Paxton had that knee injury back in June or so, and it seems like it simply took him until the end of July to shake it.

5. Johnny Cueto debuting tomorrow and might get 2 starts this week. Worth a shot?

   • Worth picking up, but I don’t think I’d be rolling him out there even w/ 2 starts.

     It’s possible that the Giants run a 6 man rotation, so, may not get 2 starts. Also, he’s had a long lay off including a couple set backs, I’d play it safe and see what he looks like first. It’s late in the season and I try to avoid ratio blow ups (for all the good it seems to do this year).

     • thanks

6. Just wanted to get your reasoning for Wheeler bring ranked above ERod in this week’s ranking.

   Wheeler seems pretty meh to me and the matchups don’t look great

   • It’s probably a bit of bias against ERod as I don’t trust him to not blow everything up here at some point, but I should likely give him more props for what he’s done recently. His ERA in the 2nd half is a sparkling 2.57, but that comes with an 88% LOB, 4.29 FIP, and a 1.37 WHIP that doesn’t really line up with his 2nd half performance.

     Wheeler hasn’t been quite as dominant in the 2nd half, but I trust him to maintain his level of performance more. Also, Wheeler gets to stay home for 2 vs playing the red hot Yankees and then going to a hitter friendly park in Philly. Would be nice if Wheeler could get the strikeouts going again, but I believe those will come around.

7. Has any info come out about the Tuesday TBD Yankees starter? Juicy match up there with Edwin Jackson going for Detroit. Thinking about grabbing Nelson Cortes for the week in my deep AL only to try and snag a bulk relief win.

   • Still nothing yet. Chad Green threw 3 innings yesterday, so, not sure he’s the opener any longer. Loaisiga only threw 1 yesterday, maybe it’s some Cortes/Loaisiga combo?

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