Pitch or Ditch for Friday, September 3

Pitch
or Ditch is a strategy for (ideally) daily mixed leagues in which you
pick up
starters on a day-to-day basis based on how well they are pitching and
their
upcoming matchups, then cut them in favor of new guys the next day. The
concept
is that the shallower the league, the more quality starting pitching is
available on the free agent wire, so rather than drafting expensive
starters,
it’s better to build a strong offense and bullpen and let the free agent
wire
populate your starting staff during the season. As a bonus, a handful of
“PoD”
guys emerge each year as worth keeping all year long, like Jair Jurrjens
last
year or Cliff Lee in ’08.
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PoD chart August 10.pdf     UPDATED CHART COMING SOON!

Top 10 by position for 2011

CORY’S PICKS

Morrow @ Nova – go with
Morrow in his final start

Garza @
Millwood

Danks @
Buchholz – did you know
Buchholz leads the MAJORS in ERA?!

Bonderman @
Greinke

Holland @
Blackburn

Kazmir @ G.
Gonzalez

Carmona @
Pauley

Dickey @ Wells
-
Wells erratic but good matchup.

Capuano @
Hamels

Livan @ Duke -
Livan’s ERA at a season high… finally going pumpkin?

Kawakami @
Miller

Arroyo @ J.
Garcia

Myers @ D.
Hudson

Cook @
Luebke

Zito @
Billingsley

 

 ***Siano says:

Ditch
on Morrow. Yanks have given him some decent beatings in NY.

 Yes
I did know Clay led MLB in ERA.

 Pitch Carmona. Mariners literally can’t hit.

 Agree
on rest.