Welcome to your fantasy baseball starting pitcher happy place. This is a new column for me this year that will combine a few things I’ve done in the past. In this article, every Monday, you’ll not only get a list of my favorite streaming starting pitchers for the whole week, but underneath that, you’ll get a breakdown of a few pitchers who are making interesting changes to their pitch mix. Today I covered Zack Wheeler, Payton Tolle, Peter Lambert, and JR Ritchie.
It’s a little bit of rankings and a little bit of analysis, and hopefully a lot of help for your teams.
As far as which pitchers on this list you’ll want to stream, your decisions will change based on your league type and settings. Since I’m listing starters for all week, I’m not going to be able to give a detailed analysis for each one; I’ll just highlight the matchup and some quick thoughts. As is usual with my articles, a streaming starter pitcher is rostered in less than 40% of Yahoo formats, so just keep that in mind as we’re going through because I won’t be mentioning pitchers who are rostered in more leagues than that, and I also won’t be mentioning pitchers who I would not start in any format.
Starting Pitcher Streamers of the Week
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I was at Connor Prielipp’s debut against the Mets, and I came away pretty impressed. His slider is a truly elite pitch. I wrote about him in more detail in our waiver wire article. Steven Matz has a decent two-start week this week, so I’m OK firing him up. Jack Kochanowicz also has a two-start week. I like this first start a lot, but…