Starts: May 16 at Minnesota Twins, May 21 at Cincinnati Reds

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Pity the starter with strong pitch-to-contact skills who is stranded at Coors Field for half of his starts -- but don't forget to snap him up when he has a two-start week on a road trip.

Such is the fate of Colorado Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland, who has thus far generated an 80% groundball rate on his two-seam, helping him to a 2.93 ERA on the young season, albeit one that stands in stark contrast to the Coors-inflated 4.15 xFIP.

Freeland should evade negative regression for another week, though. First, he visits a Twins team that started the season hot but has been about league-average in terms of both hard contact and fly-ball rate over the past month.

Then, while the Reds remains surprisingly productive at the plate with a top-five league-wide on base plus slugging (OPS) mark on the young season, Cincinnati remains rather "meh" against lefties, sporting a league-average wRC+ against southpaws over the last month. The Reds have slowed a touch over the last week, with groundball-rate and hard-contact-rate trends that could play into Freeland's hand.