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[revo]

Riffing off the Verlander thread, these pitchers have on the surface pitched well enough to remain in your rotation (or perhaps have a decent amount of Ks or Wins), but the combo of high IP with a massive WHIP has virtually, and stealthily, killed your pitching and any chance you have at a title:

Justin Verlander: 132 Ks, but 138 IP, 3.99 ERA, 1.41 WHIP
Ryan Dempster: 108 Ks, but 116 IP, 4.28 ERA, 1.45 WHIP
Bud Norris: 126 IP, 3.93 ERA, 1.41 WHIP
Jon Lester: 9 wins + 111 Ks, but 132 IP, 4.50 ERA, 1.36 WHIP
Chris Tillman: 12 wins + 90 Ks, but 120 IP, 3.84 ERA, 1.34 WHIP
R.A. Dickey: 8 wins + 100 K, but 135 IP, 4.75 ERA, 1.29 WHIP
Kris Medlen: 119 IP, 3.78 ERA, 1.378 WHIP
Jeff Samardzjia: 139 Ks, but 137 IP, 3.94 ERA, 1.31 WHIP
Tim Linceceum: 127 Ks, but 120 IP, 4.73 ERA, 1.38 WHIP

[virgonomic]

I own Dickey and Norris...and am making a run for second. :P

[revo]

I own Dickey and Norris...and am making a run for second. :P

Wow, what's the rest of your staff look like? This has been a year of low fantasy team WHIPs, so that's interesting.

[cavebird]

Wow, what's the rest of your staff look like? This has been a year of low fantasy team WHIPs, so that's interesting.

It has been ridiculous. I have one team with a WHIP of 1.271, which isn't great, but I am amazed that it is in last.

[virgonomic]

Wow, what's the rest of your staff look like? This has been a year of low fantasy team WHIPs, so that's interesting.

It's in my sig. Wilson, Buehrle, Shields (for the last month), Archer, Porcello (last 6 weeks) Benoit, Reed, Uehara (last 4 weeks).

[revo]

MLB-wide, the average for WHIP is 1.30. Let's not get carried away by saying guys that have a WHIP of 1.31 or whatever are "killing your pitching or any chance at a title", lol.

Check your fantasy leagues and see what a team of 1.30 WHIPs would get for you. Silent but Deadly!:

RJEL: 13th of 18
My 16 tm redraft: 14th of 16
My 16 tm HTH redraft: 13th of 16

And it actually said guys with HIGH IP and WHIP totals are killing your chances. If you're starting a Verlander with his 1.41 WHIP, there's almost no way your staff is Top 5 in WHIP, unless it's a 5-team league.

[Andrewski]

Check your fantasy leagues and see what a team of 1.30 WHIPs would get for you:

RJEL: 6th of 18
My 16 tm redraft: 3rd of 16
My 16 tm HTH redraft: 4th of 16

And it actually said guys with HIGH IP and WHIP totals are killing your chances. If you're starting a Verlander with his 1.41 WHIP, there's almost no way your staff is Top 5 in WHIP, unless it's a 5-team league.

I assume you mean 6th to last in rjel?

And im fifth in whip with the bum in rjel. Then again, i just got him (what an acquisition thus far!)

[Long John]

I've got Samardzjia in one league and I'm middle of the road in WHIP at 1.208.

I'm in 2 mixed leagues, so it's worse here. 1.30 WHIP puts you 3rd to last in the 15-team league and 2nd to last in the 12-team league.

[Gregg]

12 team NL only my 1.2859 is good for 10th.

1.1471 is in first place. Also first in era. 3.481.

My 12 team AL only my 1.3189 is good for 8th. Leading is 1.1706.

Crazy year.

[cavebird]

Where's Sabathia on that list? Good lord, another disaster tonight.

[DMT]

Where's Sabathia on that list? Good lord, another disaster tonight.

I was just about to post the same.

[Erik]

And it actually said guys with HIGH IP and WHIP totals are killing your chances. If you're starting a Verlander with his 1.41 WHIP, there's almost no way your staff is Top 5 in WHIP, unless it's a 5-team league.

10 teams, use some AL and some NL teams, start 8 P

Verlander
Felix
Minor
Masterson
Lohse (Cueto when healthy)
Papelbon
Frieri
Red Sox closer du jour (currently Uehara)

4th in WHIP.

[revo]

I assume you mean 6th to last in rjel?

And im fifth in whip with the bum in rjel. Then again, i just got him (what an acquisition thus far!)

Apologies, those were all from the bottom.

[revo]

Where's Sabathia on that list? Good lord, another disaster tonight.

I think today's disaster raised his ERA by 30 pts! He's been a fantasy torpedo also.