MLB Tool Analysis: Daily Pitcher Hub, Part 2
If you’re reading this, you probably already know that RotoGrinders has some of the best free tools available in the DFS community. Today, we are going to take a second look at the Daily Pitcher Hub. Like the Daily Batter Hub, there is just too much valuable information in this hub to cover in just one article. My brain might melt if I tried to do that.
The first section to look at today is the Daily Salary Chart. Dan mentions this tool on the podcast from time to time and I agree with him in regards to its value. It’s extremely useful when looking for value pitching on the various sites.
We can see from the chart below that Madison Bumgarner was one of the top priced pitchers on every site (which is a scenario that you will see for most of the season). This tool is usually better for finding mid-tier pitchers that are drastically underpriced or overpriced on certain sites. Take R.A. Dickey for example, on FanDuel he was $7,600, which was 68% of the top priced pitcher. While on Fantasy Feud he was priced at $80,900, which was only 49% of the top pitcher. Fantasy Feud might be a site to look into rostering Dickey because of his extreme value. Another example from the chart would have been Jaime Garcia against the weak hitting Mets on DraftDay at only 40% of the top. We can also see that J.A. Happ was extremely overpriced on DraftDay at 69% of the top pitcher.
The next section is the Daily Matchup Charts. The numbers in this chart are the percentages of the opposing teams’ hitters, not the percentages of the pitchers. So David Price was facing an Astros team that strikes out at a 24.60% clip. Strikeout percentages are my main use for this tool, especially for tournament pitchers. Odrisamer Despaigne would never see the light of day in my cash lineups, but he would certainly find his way into a few GPP lineups against the Cubs and their 26.10% strikeout rate. You can also sort by wOBA and OPS, but the strikeout rates are the most important for me.
The last section to look at is the Daily Pitcher vs Batter Charts. Like I mentioned last week, we are learning that BvP is certainly a factor in matchups. I like to sort by at bats when using this tool because a bigger sample size is always better.
Clayton Kershaw came in with the biggest sample of 337 Giant hitters faced. We see that he has owned that with a .190 batting average and .224 OBP. All of this is to be expected from the best pitcher in the league.
One thing that was not expected when I looked at this list is the success that R.A. Dickey has had against the Angels. In 83 at bats, he has held them to a .169 AVG and .225 OBP. I guess it shouldn’t have been such a huge surprise that Dickey went the distance and picked up the win yesterday. It’s just another reason that shows how valuable these free tools are and that you should be using them to your advantage.
That completes the Daily Pitcher Hub analysis as well as the MLB Tool Analysis series. I’ve enjoyed writing these and all of the positive feedback that you guys have given me. Have a great weekend and good luck for the rest of the MLB season. As always feel free to leave a comment or reach out to me on twitter, @Socky21