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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 4

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Apr 23rd, 2018
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Lucas Giolito, Chicago White Sox

Start: April 26th vs. Kansas City Royals
ESPN percentage owned: 20.7%

Former top prospect Lucas Giolito has not made good on his sleeper status in 2018, seeing his ERA balloon to 9.00, with a 6.36 fielding independent pitching (FIP) mark showing his struggles are no fluke. It's hard to find a silver lining here, with the Chicago White Sox righty posting a 19.2% walk rate to only a 9.1% strikeout rate. No wonder his standard-league ownership has taken a nosedive.

Indeed, Fantasy owners are bailing on Giolito in droves after last week's hair-raising nine-earned-run shellacking at the hands of the Houston Astros, but pitching-needy owners might consider snapping him up for a much softer assignment against the Kansas City Royals, a bottom-five squad in terms of team isolated slugging on the young season.

Giolito certainly hasn't looked like much of a stud in 2018, but desperate streamers won't find too many arms with this much upside and this plum of a matchup free for the taking on waivers.

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