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I have just a quick question for Mastersball and its members. I really enjoy reading the articles and threads here but before I commit for the season I would like to know how people feel about the in season maintenance on Probable Pitchers each weak? I get busy at times and keeping up with all the Sunday pitching changes or questionable starts isn't easy for me. I have the usual HQ membership (which isn't strong in this particular area at all) and a couple others last year and had my fair share of frustrations. I am not expecting 100% of the time but it would be nice to know that someone updates them over the weekend and are at least making changes after Friday.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Jim

Welcome aboard Jim. I have been a MB member for quite a few years and have jumped to the contributor side this year. I will be doing the Starter Analysis each week during the season and have committed to having it done Saturday each week. It will actually be posted 2 weeks at a time and will be updated during the week with any changes.

Chris

Jim -- in what context do you need the information? Daily league to make weekend changes? As a means to determine 2-start pitchers the following week? Something else?

Thanks.

cwk1963 wrote:Welcome aboard Jim. I have been a MB member for quite a few years and have jumped to the contributor side this year. I will be doing the Starter Analysis each week during the season and have committed to having it done Saturday each week. It will actually be posted 2 weeks at a time and will be updated during the week with any changes.

Chris

Chris, that sounds great, thanks for the reply.

Todd Zola wrote:Jim -- in what context do you need the information? Daily league to make weekend changes? As a means to determine 2-start pitchers the following week? Something else?
Thanks.

Todd,

I mainly have NFBC and CDM/DC to focus on and I am really only looking to be able to have one spot to look Sundays at the week ahead for probable pitchers. I know this site has MUCH more to offer but this year I am looking at overload if I pay for two more sites (this one and one that has reliable probable pitchers) so I had hoped to just be able to go with this one. I think my question has been answered so I appreciate the responses and will give it a shot.

I look forward to all the great reads.

Jim

Just to piggyback on what Chris has replied, I do the 2-start piece for mlb.com (a quick quip on all the starters projected to have 2 starts the following week). Because of editing, etc., I need to have it filed to them Thursday night/Friday morning.

As you can imagine, there are some last second changes that miss the deadline.

But we also co-post the piece here and when I hear of changes throughout the weekend, I usually post them in the forum as well as on the piece itself -- that's the advantage of having access to the back end

I have not really discussed this yet with Chris, but my guess is we will be watching each other's back, and will do our best to make sure one of us is "on the clock" checking the news a couple of time each weekend, since we will both be looking for the same information.

Todd Zola wrote:
I have not really discussed this yet with Chris, but my guess is we will be watching each other's back, and will do our best to make sure one of us is "on the clock" checking the news a couple of time each weekend, since we will both be looking for the same information.

That sounds outstanding. You had me at "checking the news a couple of times each weekend"...

Hey Todd - Jim's playing in the rookie league this year. Jim - I'll say that the info in season is very good. I would expect with all the CREATiVESPORTS guys coming on board - the amount of info will be even better this season - right Todd

deansdaddy wrote:Hey Todd - Jim's playing in the rookie league this year. Jim - I'll say that the info in season is very good. I would expect with all the CREATiVESPORTS guys coming on board - the amount of info will be even better this season - right Todd

I blame Ryan for all of my added roto costs this year..

I'll let JP speak to the in-season info.

Todd Zola wrote:Just to piggyback on what Chris has replied, I do the 2-start piece for mlb.com (a quick quip on all the starters projected to have 2 starts the following week). Because of editing, etc., I need to have it filed to them Thursday night/Friday morning.

As you can imagine, there are some last second changes that miss the deadline.

But we also co-post the piece here and when I hear of changes throughout the weekend, I usually post them in the forum as well as on the piece itself -- that's the advantage of having access to the back end

I have not really discussed this yet with Chris, but my guess is we will be watching each other's back, and will do our best to make sure one of us is "on the clock" checking the news a couple of time each weekend, since we will both be looking for the same information.

Just curious as to where to look for the two start pitcher piece.

Thanks.

Funny you should ask...

I just realized MLB.com never got in touch with me to do the column this season. With everything going on, it never struck me we are about to start the season.

I will still do something for the site and will put something together tomorrow. It may not be fancy. Fancy will come starting next week.

On the request of mlb.com, I developed a ranking system, but that was in-season and used year to date stats. I'll tweak it a bit to use our projections until everyone goes through the rotation a couple of times.

Thats great Todd, thanks, looking forward to it.

My 2 cents: I am all for reliable over fancy any day.

There are very few two start pitchers in Week One with a day off......as of now here are the ones I think will have two starts:
Kevin Millwood, Balt; @TB and vs TOR
Josh Beckett, Boston; vs NYY and @ KC
Mark Buehrle, CWS; vs CLE and vs MIN
Jake Westbrook, CLE; @ CWS and @ DET
Justin Verlander, Detroit; @KC and vs CLE
Zack Greinke, KC; vs DET and vs BOS
Jered Weaver, LAA; vs MIN and vs OAK
Joe Saunders, LAA; vs MIN and vs OAK
Scott Baker, MIN; @ LAA and @ CWS
Nick Blackburn, MIN; @LAA and @CWS
CC Sabathia, NYY; @ BOS and @ TB
AJ Burnett, NYY; @ BOS and @TB
Ben Sheets, OAK; vs SEA and @LAA
Dallas Braden, OAK; vs SEA and @LAA
Felix Hernandez, SEA; @ OAK and @ TEX
Ian Snell, SEA; @ OAK and @ TEX
James Shields, TB; vs BALT and vs NYY
Scott Feldman, TEX; vs TOR and vs SEA
Shawn Marcum, TOR; # TEX and @ BAL
Dan Haren, AZ; vs SD and vs PIT
Edwin Jackson, AZ; vs SD and vs PIT
Derek Lowe, ATL; vs CHC and @SF
Carlos Zambrano, CHC; @ ATL and @ CIN
Aaron Harang, CIN; vs STL and vs CHC
Ubaldo Jiminez, COL; @ MLW and vs SD
Josh Johnson, FLA: @ NYM and vs LAD
Roy Oswalt, HOU; vs SF and vs PHL
Vicente Padilla, LAD; @ PIT and @ FLA
Yovani Gallardo, MLW; vs COL and vs STL
Randy Wolf, MLW; vs COL and vs STL
Johan Santana, NYM; vs FLA and vs WAS
Roy Halladay, PHL; @ WAS and @ HOU
Zach Duke, PIT; vs LAD and @ AZ
Chris Carpenter, STL; @ CIN and @ MLW
Jon Garland, SD; @ AZ and @ COL
Tim Lincecum, SF; @ HOU and vs ATL
John Lannan, WAS; vs PHL and @ NYM