Who would you start?

by acr on May 18, 2008 5:55 PM EDT Comment 2 comments

I have to start seven pitchers in my Sportsline AL only league (H2H, points). I am alright with six of the seven-

Papelbon, George Sherrill, Joe Nathan, Mark Buerhle, Chien-Ming Wang and Jon Garland.

I have no intentions of starting Dontrelle Willis, Armando Galaragga or Kenny Rogers. If anyone thinks differently let me know. The two I have to choose between are Bartolo Colon and Doug Mathis. Colon is scheduled for his first start of the year against the Royals and Brett Tomko. Whether that actually comes to fruition is anyone's guess. Mathis has two starts- the first against the Twins and Glenn Perkins and the second against the Tribe and maybe CC Sabathia.

Two starts are nice because of the possibility of getting the extra points. Also it is possible to get negative points if a guy gets totally shelled. But then there is the chance that with the extra start that damage can be mitigated.

Pitching point categories are below-

Scoring for Pitching Categories
BBI - Walks Issued (Pitchers)	-0.5 points
CG - Complete Games	5 points
ER - Earned Runs	-1 point
HA - Hits Allowed	-0.5 points
INN - Innings	2 points
K - Strikeouts (Pitcher)	1 point
S - Saves	10 points
W - Wins	10 points

Who would you all go with? Colon or Mathis? Or someone else? Colon has been pretty hot in AAA while Mathis has just pitched 3 innings at the MLB level this year- three relief appearances, 3 k's and a walk- no earned runs. I am not so sure he can get through a line-up 2-3 times though. At AAA for the Redhawks (PCL) Mathis had seven starts, 45.2 innings and 43 hits, 30 k's and 10 bb's while giving up four homers. His ERA was 3.55 and batters his .253 off him.

Galaragga has been on his "last start" for the Tigers for a while now but keeps trucking along. Willis probably has next to zero chance of making an appearance sometime next week. Rogers got drilled recently and may be the worst of the bunch right now.

Any ideas?

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I’d go with Colon. The Royals are free swingers. Mathis has a good match-up agains tht eeven freer swinging Twins, but that Sunday game against the Idians good erase any good gained against the Twins. Worse, Mathis good be “bad” – 5 IP 4 ER 9 Runners and still be good enough to go on Sunday.

Galaragga is a regression-to-the-mean BABIP waiting to occur but he’ll get either Seattle (or Minnesota) in Comerica.

For me, it comes down to Colon or Galaragga.

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by faketeams on May 18, 2008 9:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

good call

I started Colon. Mathis got shelled- heck I don’t know if he is still even scheduled to make his next start. Plus Colon has two starts next week. Looks like Dontrelle will be coming out of the pen for a while so 2 starts for Galaragga in two weeks (hopefully).

by acr on May 21, 2008 10:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs