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Your 2010 Fantasy Baseball Guide: Starting Pitchers
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Written by Bryan Rubin and Zack Schwartz, Online Sports Editors
With the MLB season just around the corner in early April, fantasy baseball season has officially gotten under way. With thousands of drafts happening each day on Yahoo and ESPN, baseball junkies are assembling their 2010 fantasy team. We are here today to help you with your draft and provide the name’s of players that you might not be familiar with that will earn you big money.
Leading off are the Starting Pitchers.
1. Tim Lincecum is the reigning NL Cy Young Winner and highest rated pitcher on ESPN.com. Lincecum led the NL in strikeouts and won 15 games with an average Giants team. There is no reason to believe why Lincecum’s stats won’t improve this year, especially with his catcher, Bengie Molina, back.
2. Roy Halladay finally got out of Toronto and joined the Phillies this off-season. After winning the Nation League pennant two straight years, Philadelphia just got arguably one of the most dominant pitchers in the game. Halladay has won at least 16 games in each of the past three seasons and was a workhorse for the Blue Jays. In Phily, Halladay will get a lot more run support from stars like Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Jimmy Rollins.
3. Felix Hernandez got the deal of a life-time in the offseason: 5 years worth $78 million. What is a 23 year old going to do with $78 million? He will probably upgrade his crib and then prove his worth on the field. Hernandez won 19 games last season for the Seattle Mariners, who were the biggest surprise of the 2009 season. Since the Mariners acquired Cliff Lee in the off-season, Hernandez will have less pressure to be the number one ace in Seattle. Look for a rising star in Hernandez to have a very successful season with the resurging Mariners.
Sleeper:
J.A Haap will enter the season as the Philadelphia Phillies’s fourth man in the rotation. Pitching behind experienced guys like Roy Halladay and Cole Hamels, Haap has the potential to be the needle in the haystack you have been looking for. He won 12 games last year including two complete game shutout victories. Ranked a mere 170 on ESPN.com, you can draft J.A Haap late reap the benefits later.
Come back next week as we reveal the must have position players for the 2010 fantasy season.
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