That CHC loss, now that was something. 2.22 unit change of fortune. The pitchers keep biting the dust. Silseth and Framber (if he’s actually down) were somewhat targets of mine this season and I have them on 8 and 6 teams, respectively, so there was a good bit of scrambling today to get rosters lined out. People will argue this is why you don’t invest in starting pitching in drafts, but I’d argue the opposite. This is why you can never really have enough starting pitching. Today, in those leagues, I was able to switch in Seth Lugo and Louis Varland who I had benched previously due to their matchups. If I had drafted less starting pitching, my options would only be worse and the options on the wire in that league are guys like Maeda, Schmidt, Paddack and Ashcraft. My secondary SPs would be worse than Gausman or Bibee and on my team where I lost Strider, I still have Yamamoto and Skubal behind him on that team. My goal in any draft is to leave without a Single Point of Failure. Avoiding that SPF is what separates teams that are resilient against injury and those that seem totally hopeless 10 games into the season.
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That CHC loss, now that was something. 2.22 unit change of fortune. The pitchers keep biting the dust. Silseth and Framber (if he’s actually down) were somewhat targets of mine this season and I have them on 8 and 6 teams, respectively, so there was a good bit of scrambling today to get rosters lined out. People will argue this is why you don’t invest in starting pitching in drafts, but I’d argue the opposite. This is why you can never really have enough starting pitching. Today, in those leagues, I was able to switch in Seth Lugo and Louis Varland who I had benched previously due to their matchups. If I had drafted less starting pitching, my options would only be worse and the options on the wire in that league are guys like Maeda, Schmidt, Paddack and Ashcraft. My secondary SPs would be worse than Gausman or Bibee and on my team where I lost Strider, I still have Yamamoto and Skubal behind him on that team. My goal in any draft is to leave without a Single Point of Failure. Avoiding that SPF is what separates teams that are resilient against injury and those that seem totally hopeless 10 games into the season.