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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream for Week 12
Brad Peacock might not go deep into games, but his nasty slider can provide the sort of volume strikeouts that should have the attention of fantasy streamers in Week 12.

Mike Montgomery, Chicago Cubs

Starts: June 20th vs. San Diego Padres, June 25th at Miami Marlins
ESPN ownership: 5 percent

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 leading the way in grounder rate.

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