Fantasy Baseball Closer Pickup And Drop Ideas For Friday 5/13/11

--Sorry this is late. Blogger being down ruined my normal posting time.

Still not enough time passed to start bragging about my pickups, but Hosmer has hit homers in back to back games and looks to be every bit as good as advertised. Anyways, this week I gave a first base recommendation Monday, an outfield recommendation Tuesday, a third base plan Wednesday, and a catcher switch on Thursday. Today I'm going to offer a pickup and drop recommendation at a position that I haven't looked into so far this year, closers...

Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Friday 5/13/11

----Sorry this is too late to be helpful.  Blogger was down at normal posting time last night.

Thursday's Recommended Starter's Stats – Ivan Nova – 3.0 Innings Pitched – 2 Strikeouts – Loss – 12.00 ERA – 4.00 WHIP

Week 5 Starters' Stats – 21.1 Innings Pitched – 17 Strikeouts – 7.17 K/9 – 1 Win in 4 Starts – 5.91 ERA – 1.88 WHIP

Cumulative Starters' Stats – 309.2 Innings Pitched – 244 Strikeouts – 7.09 K/9 – 18 Wins in 51 Starts – 3.87 ERA – 1.23 WHIP

Starters' Stats Spreadsheet Viewable Online Here

A second bad start in a row butchers my ERA and WHIP on the week through the halfway point here, so I'm going to be “chasing” here late in the week and going to offer two starters for you on Friday. My alternate pitcher was fine yesterday, and if you played Vargas you have to be happy with the nine shut out innings and four strikeouts, even though you have to be upset that you didn't get a win out of him. That's life with the Seattle Mariners' Offense backing you up. Luckily we'll be playing against that trend with one of the recommendations here on Friday...