3 Fantasy baseball targets for week 8 and 2 you might want to sell.

Get in on the ground floor

Nick Kingham (25% Yahoo, 25% ESPN, 56% CBS, 49% Fantrax)

This only sort of the ground floor for Nick Kingham. The Pirates called him up earlier in the year for two starts. He threw 12.1 IP, struck out 16 and walked just 1. Kingham looked spectacular, but was sent back down to AAA for a bit while the team didn’t need a 5th starter. All indications are that demotion is temporary and is about to end.

The team moved him to AA to allow him to start on his normal day to keep him in line for when they next need a 5th starter on May 19. His owned percentage is about to skyrocket so get him while you still can.

This is a former top prospect whose career was derailed by injuries. Drafted with the 2nd pick in the 4th round of the 2010 draft, he was supposed to be part of a new three headed monster in the Pittsburgh Pirates rotation with Tyler Glasnow and Jameson Taillon. Unfortunately, a UCL tear in 2015 put him on the back burner. That was followed by an ankle injury in 2017 which delayed the start of his most recent season.

With the injuries behind him…

Once he did get on the mound, he produced solid results but nothing worth getting excited about. In his brief AAA and MLB starts this year, however, he’s looking like the stud starting pitcher the team had hoped he would be before the injuries. He has a 2.92 ERA in the majors with his FIP and xFIP being lower.

There are no major indications that he’s been benefiting from an extreme amount of good luck or good defense. He’s going to be a must own in all formats when he gets called back up after his next AA start. There will likely be some regression, as his .192 BABIP indicates, but the stuff is electric. He’ll be a boon to any roster.