Starting Rotation 6.28

Starting Rotation 6.28

We're back to our regularly scheduled programming tonight with a healthy nine games on the MLB slate! We have two of the bigger names on the mound this evening and then the quality drops off for the most part. At the first look, we may be picking one of the top two pitchers and then trying to gauge what to do after that so let's go to work in the Starting Rotation 6.28! 

Starting Rotation 6.28 - Main Targets

Freddy Peralta 

Cubs Ranks vs Pitch Types - FB - 25th SL - 25th CH - 14th CB - 18th

Until the Cubs force us to stop, we have to consider any pitcher against them with even a moderate strikeout pedigree. Peralta is far above moderate and sits second among qualified pitchers with a 36.4% K rate. His 14.4% swinging-strike rate is 12th in the league and he just went six innings while whiffing 10 Arizona hitters. Any start like that is encouraging since we can put fears of substance usage to bed. His spin rate was down a hai...