Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 10
Tyler Chatwood, Chicago Cubs
Start: June 7th vs. Philadelphia Phillies
ESPN percentage owned: 21.0%
With a career 1.50 WHIP and 11.4% walk rate, it's safe to say that Tyler Chatwood has always had control problems, though the 20.3% walk rate that the Chicago Cubs' righty is working with through 43.1 frames this season is downright mind-boggling, even by his standards.
It's no wonder that standard leaguers have been abandoning ship on Chatwood, but there's reason for streamers to zig while their leaguemates zag in Week 10, as Chatwood gets a home start against a Phillies team that is in line for some major negative regression. How exactly Philly carried a respectable .172 team isolated slugging in May is nothing short of a miracle, seeing that the squad managed the MLB's lowest hard-contact rate and highest soft-contact rate across that span.
Chatwood's penchant for the free pass should still make him persona non grata in shallow leagues, but managers in leagues 12 teams or deeper might want to play the numbers and roll the dice with the beleaguered Cubs hurler.
