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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 8

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen May 21st, 2018
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CC Sabathia, New York Yankees

Start: May 23rd at Texas Rangers
ESPN percentage owned: 50.1%

The advanced stats aren't exactly buying the alleged reinvention of veteran New York Yankees lefty CC Sabathia, whose crisp 2.40 ERA over 44.1 frames balloons to a less respectable 3.91 fielding independent pitching (FIP).

And while Sabathia's 29.5% hard-contact rate isn't ideal, it's hard to see where exactly that wide split in expected versus actual results comes from: soft contact, reach rate, and swinging strikes are notably up for Sabathia, while line drives and walks are notably down.

This might be a good week to see if Sabathia is still available in your league, as the Yankees square off against a Texas offense that leads the league in strikeout rate against lefties with a below-average 34.1% team hard-contact rate.


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