Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream for Week 12

Mike Montgomery, Chicago Cubs

Starts: June 20th vs. San Diego Padres, June 25th at Miami Marlins
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Mike Montgomery has a 2.21 ERA in relief for the Chicago Cubs, and he's kept pace with the starter's load admirably, limiting the Rockies and the Mets to two runs a piece across a pair of starts filling in for a nicked-up Kyle Hendricks.

It will be interesting to see if Montgomery can maintain his strong ground-ball tendencies in the longer starting assignments; his 58% grounder rate is a top-12 number among pitchers with a minimum of 40 innings, but that rate looks like a more pedestrian 50% across his two starts, admittedly a rather small sample.

This upcoming two-step will be a nice chance to pad those ground-ball numbers, as Montgomery faces off against two teams with league-leading weak-contact tendencies, including a Marlins squad that's leading the way in grounder rate.