After getting roughed up for seven earned runs against Tampa Bay back on April 18, Lester has made three starts against Baltimore, Toronto and the Los Angeles Angels. While they aren’t quite the behemoths that the other AL East opponents have proven to be, fantasy owners will take anything at this point.
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Mound Visit – SP Top 50, Week 5
Last week I didn’t get a chance to compile my weekly ratings until Thursday, so we’re operating on a four-day week. Even though a couple guys on this list didn’t get a chance to make a start, most of them did and it was enough to drastically shuffle up some portions of the rankings.
Mound Visit – SP Top 50, Week 3
Last week I cautioned owners on making assumptions based on just one week of play. With two weeks now in the books, it’s time to shuffle up the rankings. Our week three starting pitching rankings received a major overhaul after several brilliant and just as many not-so-memorable performances highlighted early season trends.
Mound Visit – SP Top 50, Week 1
The top 10 remain relatively unchanged, the only difference being Jon Lester’s 200-plus strikeouts supplanting Chris Carpenter’s dominant ERA and WHIP. However, the top 10 are only a small portion of the pitchers we need to be concerned with, so in this weekly article we’ll profile the position as a whole and name some players who are rising or falling as well as updating injury situations and bringing up a few names in the minors that you’ll soon need to know.
Examining xFIP
Up until this point, we at Baseball Professor have done a lot of talking about BABIP and its value in determining whether or not a player should maintain a certain level of performance. This is great when analyzing batters, but it’s only part of the picture when looking at pitchers. Today, we’ll examine xFIP.
The Courtroom: Lester v. Lee
In our fourth case we have the Plaintiff, Mr. Jon Lester, vs. the Defendant, Mr. Cliff Lee. Mr. Lester claims that he is now deserving of being drafted ahead of the former Cy Young winner, which Mr. Lee’s defense will be contending.
ESPN’s 2010 Preview, Part 2
The other day, ESPN released some of their fantasy experts’ predictions for 2010. We recapped a few of these projections in Part 1 of this mini-series, and today we pick it back up with Part 2.
The Next Zack Greinke?
Brad Pinkerton of The Sporting News writes in a recent article about identifying aces that breakout stars Zack Greinke, Josh Johnson, and Felix Hernandez had three statistical barometers in common in ’09. What were they, and what pitchers in 2010 could be destined for that kind of success?
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