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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 21

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Aug 20th, 2018
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​Freddy Peralta, Milwaukee Brewers

Start: August 22nd vs. Cincinnati Reds
ESPN ownership: 30.1%

Everything we like about Freddy Peralta can be reduced to the column labeled "K". The 22-year-old's strikeout upside is clearly through the roof; his 60-grade fastball has won him a 30.5% strikeout rate in 62.1 frames this season. But besides that, it's one wart after another, from the 13.9% walk rate to the 40.7% hard contact allowed.

All of which is to say that the Milwaukee Brewers youngster is as high variance as they come, but as far as lottery tickets go, he offers a tantalizing payout. Thrill-seeking streamers might give Peralta a whirl this week against a Reds offense that has declined sharply of late, scraping together a .130 team ISO against righties over the last 30 days. It doesn't hurt that the walk-prone Peralta gets to miss out on facing Cincy's DL-bound Joey Votto either.

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