Fantasy Baseball 2019: Week 7 Mid-Week Pitching Waiver Adds

Here are a couple of players to consider for your fantasy baseball team if you need to make a change to your pitching staff.

Starting pitching is a fickle beast, especially in fantasy baseball. Any pitcher could go out and have a dominant performance, like Mike Fiers‘ no-hitter, or could have a three-inning, six-run outing. Either can happen against the best or worst offenses in the league, too.

If one of your team’s starting pitchers are putting up a string of bad starts, you may want to look to the waiver wire for help. Unless that pitcher is a bona fide ace, you can move on from the poor performance.

I have made a list of available starting pitchers that you should add to your team. They’ve put together a good string of games that make them valuable in fantasy baseball leagues of all sizes.

All four of the starting pitchers listed are owned in less than 40 percent of ESPN leagues. Whether you need strikeouts, wins or low ratios, at least one of them should be able to help you out.

Yonny Chirinos

The Rays introduced the “opener” strategy last season. Chirinos was one of the top options in that role for Tampa Bay last season. He made seven starts all of last year. He’s up to four already with 42.1 innings.

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Chirinos has a 5-1 record. Even if he’s not starting or “opening” the game, Kevin Cash uses him in the middle innings, giving him a chance to earn a win. He has a 31:8 K:BB ratio with a decent ERA and WHIP.

Chirinos is eligible as both a starting and relief pitcher, giving you an edge if your league separates the two.

Spencer Turnbull

Turnbull has managed to limit opponents to no more than two earned runs in his last five starts. Though, he hasn’t pitched past the sixth inning in his last two games. Turnbull is 0-1 in his last three games.

Turnbull has the unluckiness of playing for Detroit and not getting a lot of run support. Regardless, if you don’t need wins, Turnbull has at least five strikeouts in each of his last four games with limited walks and hits.

Gio Gonzalez

Gonzalez is pitching well since his return to Milwaukee. He has a 1.69 ERA, 1.078 WHIP, 15 strikeouts, five walks and a 2-0 record in 21.1 innings.

Gonzalez hasn’t pitched out of the sixth inning in any of his starts, however. If you use innings pitched or quality starts in your league, Gonzalez is not someone you should target. Though, the low ratios may be worth it.

Jefry Rodriguez

The Indians are not the same team that made it to the World Series just a couple of years ago. The offense is struggling and the starting pitchers are not as dominant.

Rodriguez has been decent in his four starts this season. The ratios are good but he’s allowed three runs in each of his last two starts and at least three walks in all four of his starts.

He has recorded three straight quality starts but with some risk. He makes his next start against Baltimore, so that could be a “get right” game for him and the Indians.

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Looking at the list of pitchers, there’s a little bit of something for everyone. You have your choice of each pitching stat, except for saves. This is a good time to add at least one of these guys before it’s too late.

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