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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 4
Fantasy owners are abandoning ship on Chicago White Sox starter Lucas Giolito, but streamers might want to snap him up for his start against the faltering Kansas City Royals. Which other widely available arms can help you this week?

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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