Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Thursday 5/19/11

Wednesday's Recommended Starter's Stats - Brandon McCarthy - 7.0 Innings Pitched - 1 Strikeout - No Decision - 3.86 ERA - 1.29 WHIP

Week Seven Starters' Stats - 14 Innings Pitched - 3 Strikeouts - 1.93 K/9 - 0 Wins in 2 Starts - 3.86 ERA - 1.29 WHIP

Cumulative Starter's Stats - 357 Innings Pitched - 269 Strikeouts - 6.78 K/9 - 22 Wins in 57 Starts - 3.83 ERA - 1.23 WHIP

Starters' Stats Spreadsheet Viewable Online Here

McCarthy basically gave us an identical start to what I got from Joel Pineiro on Monday, just with one strikeout instead of two.  They gave you identically average ERA and WHIP, but no strikeouts to speak of through two days.  It hasn't been any bad starts, but the starts haven't been great.  He was better than Ryan Dempster, the alternate choice, who got blown up for 9.00 ERA and 2.00 WHIP.  I told you Dempster was a bigger risk even with the higher strikeout potential, and he didn't even give you the strikeouts in this outing.  Deep league players got four innings of poor ball out of Julio Teheran, but it wasn't enough innings to really hurt your counting stats.  Another starter coming up here on Thursday, looking to deliver a great start option...

Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Sunday 5/15/11

Saturday's Recommended Starter One's Stats - Chris Narveson - 6.0 Innings Pitched - 5 Strikeouts - Win - 1.50 ERA - 1.33 WHIP

Saturday's Recommended Starter Two's Stats - Tyson Ross - 7.1 Innings Pitched - 8 Strikeout - Win - 2.46 ERA - 0.95 WHIP

Week 5 Starters' Stats - 48.1 Innings Pitched - 33 Strikeouts - 6.15 K/9 - 4 Wins in 8 Starts - 4.47 ERA - 1.43 WHIP

Cumulative Starters' Stats - 336.2 Innings Pitched - 260 Strikeouts - 6.95 K/9 - 21 Wins in 54 Starts - 3.82 ERA - 1.22 WHIP

Starters' Stats Spreadsheet Viewable Online Here

The two best start since Travis Wood on Monday, here on Saturday night.  Took a pair of solid spot pitcher choices here, and both paid off with great pitching perfomances and were lucky enough to pick up a win.  Narveson just gave up just one run that the Pirates sacrificed two batters to get across the plate, and Ross rolled with eight strikeouts and just let up a two run home run to the red hot Paul Konerko.   If you went with Alex White in your deep league, he caught a rain delay, and I can't be held responsible for the weather.  Going for another pair of strong starters on Sunday for all those chasing in head to head leagues...

Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Saturday 5/14/11

Friday's Recommended Starter One's Stats - Fausto Carmona - 7.2 Innings Pitched - 2 Strikeouts - No Decision - 4.69 ERA - 1.04 WHIP
Friday's Recommended Starter Two's Stats - Philip Humber 6.0 Innings Pitched - 1 Strikeout - Win - 4.50 ERA - 1.00 WHIP
Week 5 Starters' Stats - 35 Innings Pitched - 20 Strikeouts - 5.14 K/9 - 2 Wins in 6 Starts - 5.40 ERA - 1.54 WHIP
Cumulative Starters' Stats - 323.1 Innings Pitched - 247 Strikeouts - 6.88 K/9 - 19 Wins in 52 Starts - 3.90 ERA - 1.22 WHIP
Starters' Stats Spreadsheet Viewable Online Here

First a quick note for those looking... The regular pickup column is just going to run Monday to Friday.  The Spot Starter column would be on the same schedule, but they are actually most important for those players chasing stats on the weekends.  Also, Blogger going down messed up the 5/12/11 entries' posting and their tagging so I've deleted them.  The spot starter information is available on the spreadsheet and the pickup column said to drop Jorge Posada and had Chris Iannetta as a pickup

It was a decent double start day today. Carmona didn't help your ERA, but you can see by his WHIP that he didn't pitch poorly. He just gave up a pair of bad home runs. Humber delivered six innings of no run ball, but then was left in to start the seventh inning and taking credit for three earned runs and taking four extra hits to spoil a .33 WHIP. For those in the deep leagues, Gee gave you the strikeouts and should have had one earned over five innings, but they also got greedy and left him in to start the sixth inning. A pair of better starters coming up here for Saturday to help those chasing in head to head leagues...

Fantasy Baseball Spot Starter Pickups For Saturday 4/23/11

Friday's Recommended Starter's Stats -  Tyson Ross  - 4.1 Innings Pitched - 0 Strikeouts - Loss - 6.24 ERA - 1.85 WHIP

Week 3 Starters' Stats - 32.1 Innings Pitched - 29 Strikeouts - 8.07 K/9- 1 Win in 5 Starts - 1.95 ERA - 0.99 WHIP

Cumulative Starters' Stats - 156.2 Innings Pitched - 126 Strikeouts - 7.24 K/9 - 11 Wins in 25 Starts - 3.27 ERA - 1.15 WHIP

Starter Spreadsheet Online Here

Due to a postponement in Minnesota, instead of my original choice for Friday, I'm defaulting to my second recommendation, Tyson Ross.  I warned that Ross was a risky second option yesterday, and it showed.  He pitched just 4.1 innings and let up four hits and four walks without giving a strikeout.  It would have been decent despite the strikeouts, but he was pulled with two men on base, and the reliever Jerry Blevins proceeded to walk the bases loaded, then walk a run home credited to Ross, and let up a two run single which one run of was credited to Ross, before they pulled Blevins.  Anyways, Ross had strikeout potential, but wasn't showing it as a starter on Friday night.  Still have fin numbers on the week though.  Because we are getting to the last two days of the weekly match-ups, I'm offering up a pair of spot starter recommendations for those attempting to catch up....