Nick Pollack and Ben Palmer are back to talk all things Starting Pitching in Fantasy Baseball in Episode 34 of On The Corner. This week, they discuss Joe Biagini, Jimmy Nelson, Chase Anderson, Justin Verlander, Alex Wood, Steven Matz, Taijuan Walker, Felix Hernandez, and many others.
Timestamps:
Injuries & News
- Eduardo Rodriguez (1:20)
- Justin Verlander (3:00)
- Steven Matz (8:30)
- Alex Wood (11:40)
- Jeff Hoffman (15:10)
- Nick Pivetta (20:35)
- Taijuan Walker (22:55)
- David Paulino (26:10)
- Jameson Taillon (28:35)
- Felix Hernandez (32:30)
- Zack Godley (38:40)
The List
- Luis Severino (44:35)
- Kyle Hendricks (47:45)
- Jimmy Nelson (49:40)
- Joe Biagini (55:15)
- Chase Anderson (58:30)
- Mike Foltynewicz (1:00:35)
- Randall Delgado (1:04:00)
- Danny Salazar (1:07:00)
Hitters To Start and Avoid This Week (1:12:05)
Two Start Pitchers This Week (1:17:40)
Monday’s Starts (1:19:25)
Inside Pitch (1:22:05)
Fewer pitch classifications are just worse analysis. We may as well call everything either a fastball or a change if we want to misdiagnose pitches. Slurve is a derogatory term generally speaking, which is why pitchers don’t use it often. Guys that can’t throw a 12-6 CB or a 2-8 slider don’t have a choice in what they are going to throw – something in between, that I would call sloppy. If everyone could, they would throw two distinct pitches – slurves are for the rest of them. It also makes sense that computers would have a hard time defining the difference in break from a slider and a curve – which is the real reason this conversation exists. Machines should never be driving this conversation, but they are because pitchFX says nothing is a slurve.