Posts Tagged ‘pitchers’

by Pat Cloghessy Well, this is awkward. Entering 2019, few would have put Jack Flaherty and Yu Darvish on the same planet. As luck (skill?) would have it, the July BABS update reflects on their skills thusly: (KK |-ER).  But wait a second. Were their converging assets and liabilities a realistic possibility all along? Here…

by Pat Cloghessy I drafted major skills, and got minor results. Top-shelf starting pitchers who stink. Fun with playing time projections. It must be the first BABS pitching update of the season! Where are all of the top names? Move down the freshly minted update. Now keep going…right…there. The good old (M,KK | -ER) group.…

Latest special discount to The Athletic for site members. By Patrick Cloghessy When it comes to pitching, we want strikeouts. Lots of them. When it comes to starting pitchers who take the mound every fifth day and stockpile the whiffs, well…we can’t always get what we want. There are 45 starting pitchers BABS tabs as…

by Chris Doyle It’s the final BABS update of the season and we’ve got plenty to talk about. Let’s dive right into the hurlers for some surprises, disappointments and everything in between. Gerrit Cole (E+, K+) is officially a fantasy ace. He was a bit lucky in the first half (.256 BABIP, 83% strand rate,…

by Chris Dowd One of the most important things to remember about BABS is that she is purely analytical. Her strengths lie in assessing past performance, not predicting the future. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Despite all the statistics out there, no tool can present a player’s true skills quite like BABS (check out…

by Justin Cary We are a little more than a month in the season and the first BABS scan has arrived. Owners should be reminded that playing time represents less than 20% of the total year’s output. Be careful making assessments about skill sets. Instead, owners should be looking at skills confirmations, or what skill…