Starting Rotation 6.20

Starting Rotation 6.20

Sunday brings us a relatively small slate of nine games and the pitching is....fine, I suppose. I'm not sure it's the best we'll ever see but we've absolutely dealt with worse recently. It is another slate where I don't have an overwhelming desire to pay the top-end salaries, but let's discuss it in the Starting Rotation 6.20!

Starting Rotation 6.20

Taijuan Walker 

Nationals Ranks vs Pitch Types - FB - 13th SL - 15th SF - 28th CB - 19th

Maybe the greatness that is Jacob deGrom has rubbed off on Walker. Maybe it's just a hot start to the season. It's most likely some subtle changes to his pitch mix but regardless, Walker deserves to carry this price tag based on this season's performance. He's sporting a 2.12 ERA (the 3.84 xFIP is a bit scary for sure), his K rate is 26.9%, and the CSW is 30.2%. The swinging-strike rate won't wow you at 9.6% but that is up almost 2% from 2020. Walker has started to use his sinker more and even thou...