I'd like to do this daily, but I doubt I will. I will do this as often as I can, because I think it's interesting, at least.
It's Sunday, and you know what that means! That means every team in all of Baseball is in action today. Looking at the schedule, I noticed that there is only four games on the schedule tomorrow, so set your fantasy rosters accordingly. But lets not get ahead of ourselves here, let's focus on today's games.
Here's the starting pitchers for today, as of this writing:
It's Sunday, and you know what that means! That means every team in all of Baseball is in action today. Looking at the schedule, I noticed that there is only four games on the schedule tomorrow, so set your fantasy rosters accordingly. But lets not get ahead of ourselves here, let's focus on today's games.
Here's the starting pitchers for today, as of this writing:
As you can see here, there's a few interesting match ups today, but mostly I see a lot of mismatches. Samardzija vs Jordan Lyles, perhaps? But then you stop and realize it's the Astros vs the Cubs, so that's not interesting. The one that pops out to me is Mat Latos and the Reds against the (still) first place Diamondbacks and Randal Delgado. Former Atlanta Brave Delgado was part of the Justin Upton trade. I've been to three Braves games in my life. The starting pitchers for those Braves games were John Smoltz, Tim Hudson...and Randal Delgado. You can imagine which one the Braves lost, right? Yeah, but anyway, he's made two appearances and one start for the Diamondbacks this season. That one start was this past Tuesday evening, where gave up eight hits and two runs while striking out six over seven innings against the suddenly resurgent(?!) Miami Marlins. By all accounts, a solid outing. He was given a no-decision but the DBacks won on a Paul Goldschmidt walk-off home run. Delgado was a top prospect in the Braves organization before sputtering out in his chance in the majors, and ultimately dealt to Arizona along with a number of other prospects and my beloved Martin Prado for Justin Upton, a trade that at this point has been won by Atlanta, I think. But Delgado has an upside. At first, it seemed to be a trade of Prado for Upton, but who knows? Maybe Delgado will thrive in Arizona and somewhere down the line, we'll be asking ourselves "They traded him for HIM?!?" I guess a lot of that future began last Tuesday, and continues today against the Reds and their highly touted offense, led by my fantasy hero, Joey Votto.
(no one cares about my or your fantasy team...remember that in the future.)
Other pitching highlight today is the next start from the electric Matt Harvey. It's against the Phillies, so you never know how that will go.
Highly touted pitching prospect TBD (awful parents for naming their child that!) gets the start for Baltimore
I'm very interested to see what Matt Cain does today against the Marlins. His starts have all kinds of inconsistent numbers lately. We'll have to see which Matt Cain shows up today. He has a 7.22 ERA in day games, but I don't know how many day games he's pitched. I know he got lit up by St. Louis in a day game, and I'm sure that's probably throwing that number off. Anyway, We shall see.
Joe Blanton will go for his 11th loss today. Cole Hammels got his on Friday night. At least Hammels has more than one win, however. Ouch.
Adam Wainwright pitches tonight. Not a good pitching match up though, so it don't get featured here. It just gets mentioned at the end.
So enjoy the games today and mostly, enjoy the pitching.
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