Starts & Sits August 3-5
A look ahead for planning your starts & sits
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Like I said on Wednesday, this one is going to be based on projections for the most part. We’re hanging out at the beach house this weekend, and I will also be writing trade reaction stuff. Also, we don’t really know if any of these guys will actually start, given how rotations have been shaken up by the deadline. Speaking of, I totally nailed Skubal going to the Dodgers. Absolutely nobody saw that coming.
We’ll have more general reaction about that in another post. Let’s see how the projections like this week’s starting slate.
LEGEND
Anchor Arms - General consensus is they are going to dominate the matchup.
Send it Guys - Expect a solid performance. Thanks to either a favorable matchup or just a hot hand.
Danger Zone - Could be an awesome start with a solid amount of upside, but it’s not a comfortable matchup.
Desperation Station - A super unfavorable matchup, but you are desperate for points, so you start them anyway.
Hard Pass - Dudes I don’t have any interest in starting.
DISCLAIMER - Starters subject to change; we use the best information we have available to project who will be starting on a given day.
Monday August 3rd
ANCHOR ARMS
Cam Schlittler vs St. Louis
SEND IT GUYS
Ian Seymour @ Colorado - A little weary of the environment.
Logan Webb @ Texas
Justin Wrobleski @ CHC
DANGER ZONE
Aaron Nola vs Washington
Matthew Boyd vs LAD
Brandon Sproat vs Pittsburgh
Brandon Pfaadt vs San Diego
DESPERATION STATION
Bubba Chandler @ Milwaukee
Tatsuyi Imai vs Toronto - There was talk of him going to the bullpen, so I doubt this happens.
Shane Bieber @ Houston
Dustin May @ NYY
HARD PASS
Cal Quantrill vs San Francisco
Zack Littell @ Philadelphia
Griffin Canning @ Arizona
Michael Lorenzen vs Tampa Bay
Tuesday August 4th
ANCHOR ARMS
Logan Henderson vs Pittsburgh
Chris Sale vs Miami
Reid Detmers @ Baltimore - Is there a chance he’ll be in the Baltimore dugout?
Jesus Luzardo vs Washington
Joe Ryan @ Kansas City
SEND IT GUYS
Ryan Weathers vs St. Louis
MacKenzie Gore vs San Francisco
Casey Mize @ Seattle
Jared Jones @ Milwaukee
Christian Scott @ Cleveland
DANGER ZONE
Cade Povich vs LAA
JT Ginn @ Cincinnati
Patrick Sandoval vs CWS
Brady Singer vs Athletics
Trey Yesavage @ Houston
Robbie Ray @ Texas
DESPERATION STATION
Jesse Scholtens @ Colorado
Gabriel Hughes vs Tampa Bay
Davis Martin @ Boston
Slade Cecconi vs NYM
Ryan Gusto @ Atlanta
Ryan Wesneski vs Toronto
HARD PASS
Eric Lauer @ CHC - Bet SKUBAL takes his spot in rotation.
Jake Irvin @ Philadelphia
Javier Assad vs LAD
Michael McGreevy @ NYY
Eduardo Rodriguez vs San Diego
JP Sears @ Arizona
Randy Dobnak vs Minnesota
Wednesday August 5th
ANCHOR ARMS
Dylan Cease @ Houston
Kyle Harrison vs Pittsburgh
Paul Skenes @ Milwaukee
Nathan Eovaldi vs San Francisco
SEND IT GUYS
Sonny Gray vs CWS
Eury Perez @ Atlanta
Sean Manaea @ Cleveland
Hunter Brown vs Toronto
Trevor Rogers vs LAA
Foster Griffin @ Philadelphia
Shota Imanaga vs LAD
Sean Burke @ Boston
DANGER ZONE
Joey Cantillo vs NYM
Will Warren vs St. Louis
Troy Melton @ Seattle
Jacob Lopez @ Cincinnati
Noah Cameron vs Minnesota
Emerson Hancock vs Detroit
DESPERATION STATION
Grant Holmes vs Miami
Andre Pallante @ NYY
Bailey Ober vs Kansas City
Roki Sasaki @ CHC
Nick Martinez @ Colorado
HARD PASS
Grayson Rodriguez @ Baltimore - Revenge game??
Rhett Lowder vs Athletics
Andrew Painter vs Washington
German Marquez @ Arizona
Carson Whisenhunt @ Texas
Tomoyuki Sugano vs Tampa Bay
Mitch Bratt vs San Diego
Let’s see how these last couple of days of the trade deadline shake out; a lot of these matchups probably won’t happen, as I said earlier. Everyone, have a lovely Sunday!!