Trevor Rogers Daily Fantasy News, Rankings, Projections

Trevor Rogers will start for the Orioles Thursday.

Interesting sub-$7K arms on DraftKings are aplenty tonight. The list includes Wacha, Nick Martinez, Patrick Corbin, Trevor Rogers and Zach Gallen. Martinez struck out six of 21 Giants with a single walk in his first major league start since 2017. But then the home runs allowed were equal to the strikeouts (three) in his second start, additionally walking four Braves. After not allowing a barrel in his first start, opposing batters generated five in his second. He faces a terrifying Dodger lineup. Corbin hasn’t been as bad as his 7.50 ERA through three starts. In fact, having not allowed a home runs, he has a FIP of just 3.49, but 4.73 xERA on just 2.5% Barrels/BBE. Corbin has just a 5.0 K-BB% and appalling 93.9 Z-Contact%. His velocity was down to 90 mph with just a 5.4 SwStr% in his last start. The only appeal here is that the San Francisco lineup may have some strikeouts in it.

Rogers has gotten off to a rough start, striking out just six of 35 batters (8.8 SwStr%) with five walks. Ten runs have crossed the plate over his 6.2 innings on the mound. His Zone and F-Strike rates are actually up, but the chase rate is down and batters are connecting more when they do swing at pitches outside the zone. This is a young pitcher throwing at the same velocity as when he produced a 20.2 K-BB% last year though. He gets a park downgrade against a tough lineup in Atlanta, but certainly seems worth a GPP flyer. A finger injury pushed Zac Gallen’s season debut back a week. He struck out just two of 15 batters with a walk. Injuries were the story last year too when he made just 23 starts. He now has 277.1 innings of work with a 17.9 K-BB%. This price tag seems too low, even against the red hot Mets (127 wRC+ L7 days).