fantasy baseball pitching

bigboydan · 03-05-2006, 11:40 AM

a friend of mine was asking me last night if i would take jake peavy or johan santana this year. i told him santana was the better choice, but he was thinking peavy was the better choice.

which one would you guys go with between the two of them ?

H Gruber · 03-05-2006, 11:58 AM

I would give the slight edge to Johan statitically, and also the Pods are moving in the fences at Petco slightly. Also, every fantasy publication I've seen has Johan as the #1 SP pick

presley177 · 03-05-2006, 12:13 PM

no brainer. Johan.

Personally i wouldn't even make Peavy top 5 after his injury in the playoffs last year and the fact like Dan said..moving the fences in.

onlòóker · 03-05-2006, 01:34 PM

Well it depends on where you can get Peavy. You maybe able to find him in round 2 or 3. Johan can go in the 1st round. So if you want to risk waiting on Peavy, and pick up a better position player in the 1st round/2nd round, then do that and get Peavy later.

You have to get the feel of the draft and adjust to it, on how people are picking.

Willie Bee · 03-06-2006, 12:20 PM

I'd take Santana then Oswalt. Peavy is fine, and I'm not really too worried right now about his postseason injury or the fences (left field only is how I understand it) coming in a bit. The strange thing about that is that all three of those pitchers are performing on teams with a lot of offensive questions and teams that are picked between 75-85 wins this year. Could probably throw Ben Sheets into this group as well.

Two guys who could give you more wins with strong ERA, WHIP and K stats as well are Halladay and Beckett.