Starting Pitcher Chart – July 9th, 2024

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Keider Montero showed some flashes in a couple of extended outings (1 start in game 2 of a doubleheader and the other an extended relief appearance from the 2nd-6th innings) at the end of May and June with an 18% K-BB. He still had 9 ER in 9.7 IP thanks in large part to 3 HRs. He jumped into Casey Mize’s spot on July 3rd and did his best work yet against MIN: 6.3 IP/2 ER/4 Ks/1 BB. Still not exactly overpowering, but something to build upon going into this week’s 2-step.

I didn’t express a ton of confidence in him, putting him in the YOLO category on the 2-start board, but I came away impressed by his 6.3 IP of scoreless work on Monday night. He got ahead with a 76% first pitch strike rate (63% lg. avg) and posted a 36% Called Strike + Whiff rate (27% lg. avg), both figures were season bests for Montero. It certainly wasn’t enough to give him a full green light against LAD, but he’s on the radar now as a streamer option.

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Starter Notes July 9, 2024

RK	PITCHER	GAME	10	12	15+	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	wOBA RK L30/Season
1	Chris Sale	ATL at ARI	x	x	x	99	2.71	0.91	28%	10th/6th
2	Logan Gilbert	SEA at SDP	x	x	x	117	2.91	0.92	19%	4th/2nd
3	Zack Wheeler	PHI v LAD	x	x	x	111	2.74	0.99	19%	7th/4th
4	Zac Gallen	ARI v ATL	x	x	x	67	3.06	1.11	19%	28th/18th
5	Bailey Ober	MIN at CHW	x	x	x	94	4.12	1.10	20%	26th/30th
6	Ronel Blanco	HOU v MIA	x	x	x	96	2.53	1.01	13%	30th/29th
7	Jake Irvin	WSN at NYM	x	x	x	106	2.80	1.00	17%	5th/11th
8	Max Scherzer	TEX at LAA	x	x	x	16	2.70	0.84	13%	11th/20th
9	Michael Wacha	KCR at STL	x	x	x	84	3.74	1.22	14%	14th/12th
10	Carlos Rodón	NYY at TBR	x	x	x	99	4.45	1.24	17%	9th/11th
11	Ryan Pepiot	TBR v NYY	x	x	x	75	4.40	1.12	18%	13th/1st
12	Bobby Miller	LAD at PHI	x	x	x	25	6.12	1.60	9%	9th/9th
13	Ben Lively	CLE at DET	x	x	x	77	3.14	1.16	14%	27th/24th
14	Brayan Bello	BOS v OAK	x	x	x	78	5.19	1.45	12%	24th/27th
15	Blake Snell	SFG v TOR	x	x	x	23	9.51	1.94	14%	20th/23rd
16	Dean Kremer	BAL v CHC	x	x	x	55	3.93	1.09	16%	18th/17th
17	Yusei Kikuchi	TOR at SFG		x	x	94	4.12	1.31	19%	11th/9th
18	Jose Quintana	NYM v WSN		x	x	89	4.22	1.34	9%	21st/28th
19	Jameson Taillon	CHC at BAL			x	81	2.99	1.18	14%	1st/3rd
20	Erick Fedde	CHW v MIN			x	106	3.13	1.13	15%	2nd/8th
21	Joey Estes	OAK at BOS			x	55	4.39	1.12	13%	8th/7th
22	Roansy Contreras	LAA v TEX			x	35	4.04	1.46	9%	29th/22nd
23	Colin Rea	MIL v PIT			x	94	3.34	1.20	10%	17th/28th
24	Andre Pallante	STL v KCR			x	45	4.00	1.44	9%	22nd/14th
25	Cal Quantrill	COL at CIN			x	100	3.77	1.33	9%	25th/25th
26	Trevor Rogers	MIA at HOU				84	4.91	1.60	8%	14th/10th
27	Frankie Montas	CIN v COL				77	4.19	1.32	9%	16th/19th
28	Quinn Priester	PIT at MIL				31	4.83	1.55	7%	15th/6th
29	Kenta Maeda	DET v CLE				63	6.71	1.52	9%	10th/13th
30	Adam Mazur	SDP v SEA				26	7.52	1.82	-2%	23rd/26th

Recommendations for Roto 5×5 Leagues

The chart includes their 2024 stats (this changed over from last year’s stats on April 22nd), their opponent’s wOBA versus the pitcher’s handedness from this year so far (this is changed as of April 11th), my general start/sit recommendation for 10-team, 12-team, and 15-team (or more) leagues, and then a note about them. Obviously, there are league sizes beyond those three so it’s essentially a shallow, medium, deep. If a pitcher only has an “x” in 15-team, it doesn’t mean there’s no potential use in 10s and 12s, but that just means it is a riskier stream as the league gets shallower.

These are general recommendations, and your league situation will carry more weight whether you are protecting ratios or chasing counting numbers. This is for standard 5×5 roto leagues. The thresholds for H2H starts are generally lower, especially in points leagues so I thought there would be more value focusing on roto and then you can generally expand these recommendations a bit for points leagues.