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Fantasy Baseball: 4 Pitchers to Stream in Week 3

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Apr 16th, 2018
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Sean Newcomb, Atlanta Braves

Start: April 19th vs. New York Mets
ESPN percentage owned: 16.8%

Atlanta Braves southpaw Sean Newcomb looks like the prototypical fantasy streamer, with the kind of gaudy strikeout rate (31%) that is utter catnip for stat-needy owners and an outsized walk rate (11.3%) that will keep him hovering on waiver wires.

The surprisingly potent Mets don't profile as a walk (so to speak) in the park for the erratic young southpaw, especially given that Mets have one of the highest team walk rate in the majors. But they've also been one of the teams most inclined to chase at pitches outside of the strike zone, so it's hard to see the overachieving Mets as a font of plate discipline.

Add to that a paltry .100 team isolated slugging and glaring 31.8% strikeout rate against lefties for the Mets on the young season, and Newcomb seems like a strong play this week, however shaky his control.

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