CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings: Tuesday, June 1st
Happy Tuesday! We are back to a somewhat regular day with a 14-game slate starting at 7:05pm ET. There are no double-headers, and we know almost all of the starting pitchers more or less ‘for sure’. Knock on Alex.
One thing to be aware of is that the Blue Jays are moving out of Dunedin, and starting tonight, there “home” games will be played in Buffalo, where they played their games last season. This ballpark is closer to a normal MLB stadium, and not as hitter friendly as what they’ve had in Dunedin the first couple months.
Let’s jump on in and see what we find for this first slate of June.
Tuesday Night Pitching
This is a very tough pitching slate to break down. We’ve got a couple bigger names on the slate, but they are not in ideal situations, and then there is a huge jumble mid-tier with decent pitchers that are all going to project very similarly. I’ll talk through my favorites here, but this is definitely a night where you can spread out or end up with a completely different core of pitchers than me.
I don’t see the clear dividing lines in tiers that we sometimes get, so I’m just going to start by looking at the 2021 stats from the first 12 pitchers that I’m considering tonight. There are another seven pitchers that are basically just as good, but based on matchups, skills or salary, they are going to miss my cut tonight.
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Tyler Glasnow at NY Yankees – 36.2% K, 8.5% BB, 2.57 ERA, 2.83 SIERA
Aaron Nola at Cincinnati – 28.1% K, 4.8% BB, 3.73 ERA, 3.24 SIERA
Stephen Strasburg at Atlanta – 22.7% K, 13.6% BB, 4.43 ERA, 4.93 SIERA
Alex Wood vs LA Angels – 26.3% K, 5.8% BB, 2.44 ERA, 3.16 SIERA
Andrew Heaney at San Francisco – 29.1% K, 8.5% BB, 5.24 ERA, 3.59 SIERA
Chris Bassitt at Seattle – 26.1% K, 5.7% BB, 3.21 ERA, 3.47 SIERA
Robbie Ray vs Miami – 28% K, 6.1% BB, 3.81 ERA, 3.35 SIERA
Sonny Gray vs Philadelphia – 28.4% K, 10.4% BB, 3.40 ERA, 3.76 SIERA
Brady Singer vs Pittsburgh – 23.1% K, 9% BB, 4.91 ERA, 4.07 SIERA
Eric Lauer vs Detroit – 25% K, 3.4% BB, 2.45 ERA, 3.18 SIERA (only 22 IP)
Domingo German vs Tampa Bay – 23.3% K, 5% BB, 3.06 ERA, 3.76 SIERA
Matt Boyd at Milwaukee – 19.7% K, 6.3% BB, 3.43 ERA, 4.37 SIERA
German Marquez vs Texas – 24.3% K, 12.2% BB, 4.47 ERA, 4.33 SIERA