Getting an edge on your competition in MLB Fantasy Baseball can often be a matter of being quicker on the draw with free agents. Here are some pitchers you may want to target.
MLB Fantasy Baseball is hard. It’s even harder if your draft didn’t go quite how you had hoped and you find yourself scouring the free agent pool for talent in the early weeks. Maybe you reached a couple of times and are now regretting not taking the safer bet.
Perhaps you didn’t buy into that run on second base bats and ended up with Neil Walker as your starter. Or maybe, like me, you don’t believe in chasing a run on starting pitchers early, and you are looking to backfill your rotation.
It’s never a bad idea to land one of the top 5-7 starters in baseball if you can in the first two rounds. But I subscribe to the philosophy that it’s easier to plug holes in the rotation than in your lineup once the season gets underway, so I often focus mostly on hitters in the first six or seven rounds and find myself digging around for rotation help throughout the year.
If you are proactive about it and aren’t afraid to cut bait early on your late round picks when they struggle early, you can often pick up an arm or two worth rostering the rest of the year. So, with the first two weekends of the season in the books here’s a look at some pitchers to target.