Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Wednesday 5/11/11

Tuesday's Recommended Starter Stats - Kevin Correia - 6.1 Innings Pitched - 2 Strikeouts - Loss - 5.69 ERA - 1.58 WHIP
Cumulative Starters' Stats - 300.1 Innings Pitched - 235 Strikeouts - 7.02 K/9 - 18 Wins in 49 Starts - 3.67 ERA - 1.19 WHIP

Correia laid a bit of an egg on Tuesday, but a look at the play-by-play shows why you can't kill him.  One of the four earned runs came on a two out single by Andre Ethier, and then the other three came on a homer by Matt Kemp in the next at bat.  Ethier has hit successfully in all but two games to start the year, and Kemp has been as hot as anyone to start the year.  Sometimes you just get unlucky.  If you took Correia you weren't missing much with Jason Hammel, who let up four earned runs to the Mets.  Those in deeper leagues had Rick Porcello pitch a good game for them.  Not a lot of strikeouts, but ERA, WHIP and a win.  Starters for Wednesday coming up...

Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Tuesday 5/10/11

Monday's Recommended Starter Stats - Travis Wood - 6.2 Innings Pitched - 6 Strikeouts - Win - 0.00 ERA - 1.05 WHIP

Cumulative Starters' Stats - 295 Innings Pitched - 233 Strikeouts - 7.11 K/9 - 18 Wins in 48 Starts - 3.63 ERA - 1.18 WHIP

I told you my gut said to start Wood over Santana.  Both have been unlucky to start the season, but Wood has been unlucky to an extreme and is really a better fantasy pitcher option than Santana anyways.  Starting off the week with six strikeouts and a clean ERA in a win is always good for your team.  For the deeper league players, it wasn't super pretty, but Jeff Karstens was definitely a decent starter given the dearth of option.  Tuesday's starter coming up...

Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickup For 4/1/11

Any good fantasy baseball player knows that acquiring free agent pitchers is huge for any kind of fantasy team.  If you drafted a lot of relievers, streaming starters can be a great way to accumulate innings and strikeouts and even if you have great starters, picking up the right free agent pitcher can be great help on days when your starters have bad match ups.  Everyday I post my recommendation for starting pitchers to pick up for the next days games.  If you read this space yesterday for today's (3/31) games you would have picked up Derek Lowe and got great value out of him.  Lowe pitched 5.2 innings of no run ball with just three hits and two walks...picking up six strikeouts and a win with a slick 0.88 WHIP.  Lowe had a great day but won't have another good matchup for a while, so you can drop him for tommorow's (4/1) pickup if you need to.  So who do I recommend for Friday?  Find out after the jump....