Starting Rotation 6.23

Starting Rotation 6.23

There's a six-game slate in the afternoon and a seven-game slate tonight in the majors! It doesn't exactly feature the pitching we had last night, that doesn't mean we don't have some choices. By "some" I don't exactly mean a whole lot and I would suspect that the popularity is concentrated in a few spots in Starting Rotation 6.23, so let's get into it! 

Starting Rotation 6.23 - Early Slate Targets 

Kevin Gausman - The righty from the Giants is 15th in K rate and top-five in both swinging-strike rate and CSW. He's been lights out and has both sides of the plate under a .220 wOBA so he deserves to be the highest-priced player on the early slate. The Angels are about 15th in K rate to righties and sit 23rd against the splitter. That pitch has 70 strikeouts on the season with a 49.1% whiff rate and just a .147 wOBA. Unsurprisingly, it's the highest-rated splitter on the FanGraphs page at 14.2. The next closest is Yusei Kikuchi at 4.1. ...