Pitch or Ditch for Saturday-Monday, August 22-24
CORY’S PICKS
SATURDAY
Big
Erv
@ Richmond
Burnett @
Tazawa
D. Hernandez @
Danks
Fister @
Laffey
Hunter @
Garza
Duensing @
Davies
Galarraga @
Cahill
Lilly @
Haeger
Volstad @
Hanson
Scherzer @
Moehler
Lehr @ Duke
(gamble)
Burns @
Lannan
Happ @ Redding (this
could be 13-2)
J. Martinez @ De
La Rosa
Carpenter
@
Correia
SUNDAY
King
Felix @
Carmona
Bell @ Romero
(Romero’s been awful lately, I’m benching him)
Feldman @
Price
Berken @
Buehrle (Buehrle awful since the perfecto)
Pavano @
Bannister
Porcello @
Tomko
Sabathia @
Beckett
Pedro @
Perez
Nolasco @
Lowe
Bailey @
Hart
Parra @
Stammen
Garland @
Norris
Lincecum @
Ubaldo
Smoltz @ Carrillo
(yep)
Dempster @
Billingsley (not really trusting
Dempster much right now though)
MONDAY
Niemann @
Halladay
Contreras @
Buchholz
Sowers @
Meche
Tillman @
Baker
Verlander @ Jered
Weaver
Mazzaro @
Snell
Lee @ Parnell (this
could be 11-1)
Gallardo @
Balester
Zito @ Marquis (Zito
pitching well lately, but I’m not chancing it in Coors
***Siano says “If
you’re pitching Smoltz you have to pitch Pedro so I say Pitch on Pedro. He will give the Mets another reason to start counting down the days until Jets and
Giants football. Snell coming off a decent start vs Detroit is an interesting
gamble vs Oakland if you’re in the chasing wins mood. Agree on
rest.”
mlbtstufantasy411
If you cover up the names and just look at the numbers, Kevin Correia might be a good gamble at home these days, although the Cards are a less than favorable matchup. I’ll take my chances, as I have with him recently. I haven’t been overly disappointed. Again, taking small chunks of time into consideration (last 5, last 10 starts), a guy like Correia has much better numbers than some others on the “pitch” list for this weekend.
Greg in Cincy
Okay, so I look like a jackass again…thanks Correia. So much for thinking for myself. I guess I should just be a freakin sock puppet and let Mike and Cory pick my pitchers everyday…why put effort into trying to find helpful players when these 2 have sold their souls to the devil to make people like me look stupid? Pitch Big Erv with a bad elbow and 9 sucky starts out of 12, and he gives 3 straight “quality” starts, but try to find guys with sub-4 ERAs in their split/matchup to sneak into my lineup (and recommend to others on here) and they bomb as soon as I mention their names (Correia, and Hammel when I recommended him, but I also started him last time when he pitched well). Why teach concepts when you can just tell me exactly who to play here on this forum?
Sorry, but I’m FRUSTRATED right now!!!!! But I’m still here, even after drafting a fantasy football team tonight.
Greg in Cincy
Why Hudson Street did not get a SAVE on Rockies’ win on Saturday vs. the Giants?
He got in the ninth, with 3 runs advantage and struck out the last two batters of the game.
Can somebody explain that to me?
The save rule calls for a pitcher to either come into the game with the potential tying or winning run either on base, at bat, or on deck, or pitch at least one inning with a lead of 3 runs or less. Street came into the game with a 3 run lead, but the bases were empty, and he only pitched 2/3 of an inning.
Greg in Cincy
Nice job on the clarification, Greg. Glad you’re still here despite having already drafted your fantasy football team. I’m not ready for football quite yet either!
Zach