Starting Rotation 7.31

Starting Rotation 7.31

It's Saturday and we have two slates, one with five games in the afternoon and one with nine games in the evening. I'll be honest, the five-game slate looks beyond terrible for pitching so we're going to focus on the nine-game slate for the evening. The evening looks better but that is faint praise in the Starting Rotation 7.31 so let's figure out who we need to utilize tonight! 

Starting Rotation 7.31

Yu Darvish 

It's been tough sledding in July for Darvish with a 7.32 ERA through 19.2 IP (and a 5.95 FIP) but this is certainly a get-right spot. Darvish has pitched 71 IP at home and has been far better there and we just saw Joe Musgrove buzzsaw this Colorado lineup a couple of nights ago. He's sporting a K rate of nearly 29% and a 12.8% swinging-strike rate. Colorado is also 26th against the cutter, which is the primary pitch for Darvish. That's a good thing because the wOBA allowed on that pitch is .418. With Colorado on the road, it makes ...