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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 4

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Apr 23rd, 2018
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Brandon McCarthy, Atlanta Braves

Starts: April 23rd at Cincinnati Reds, April 28th at Philadelphia Phillies
ESPN percentage owned: 16.9%

For the first time in a long time, Brandon McCarthy has been as much fun to roster in fantasy as he is to follow on Twitter.

The thoroughly logged-on Atlanta Braves righty carries a mint 2.91 ERA and respectable 3.75 FIP into a two-start Week 4. Of particular note is his early-week matchup with the anemic Cincinnati Reds' offense, owners of a slender .089 team isolated slugging mark, along with an uninspiring .652 team OPS at home, hardly positioning the Great American Ball Park as the streamer stay-away it had been when the Cincinnati offense was much more fearsome.

It's hard to say no to McCarthy in Week 4, even if he has the potential to take some lumps from a surging Philadelphia Phillies squad over the weekend.

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