Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann was saddled with the loss on Tuesday night against the Kansas City Royals, allowing four earned runs on seven hits over five innings. He struck out four and walked just one, but this was a rough outing for the 32-year-old as he threw just 59 of his 84 pitches for strikes. Zimmermann had made three very quality starts in a row prior to this dud, allowing just two earned runs over his last 20 innings. For the season, he has a 4-2 record, 3.97 ERA,[...]

You know what it is--it's my updated starts/sits column for Week 16! Your friendly neighborhood @Roto_Dubs is back again this year with his weekly starting pitcher matchups. This is our fifth year now writing this weekly column, helping fantasy baseball managers pick the best pitchers weekly. Below are the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 16, and our recommendations on whether to start or sit each pitcher.  If you've got any questions about which pitchers can capitalize on a j[...]

I like to consider myself a pioneer of the streaming approach. I won a league about seven years ago completely ignoring saves and just stacking up the starts each week. While streaming is undoubtedly more directly associated with pitching, there's plenty of value in streaming for offense as well. Maybe you have a stacked roster and you can't drop anyone. But for those of us with a couple of guys on the roster fringes, it's never too early to look into targeting a specific player or two to gai[...]

Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of today's projected starting pitchers (July 13th). Below that, you will also find our start/sit recommendations for each matchup. The concept is pretty straight forward. We round up our daily pitcher rankings, which will hopefully help you make your start/sit and DFS lineup decisions. Use this column to set your season-long and DFS lineups for today, and get a better sense of which starters we think will have success. Here[...]

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann worked 6 2/3 innings on [...]

Welcome to our surprising starts series. Every week we'll be going over a few surprising starting pitcher performances around the majors to determine whether these starts were smoke and mirrors or something more. This week we got surprising starts from two veterans that were left for dead by the fantasy community. We also saw an encouraging two-start week from an unheralded young lefty. Jordan Zimmermann and Anibal Sanchez, two pitchers with an ERA north of six last season, turned in domin[...]

You know what it is--it's my updated starts/sits column for Week 15! Your friendly neighborhood @Roto_Dubs is back again this year with his weekly starting pitcher matchups. This is our fifth year now writing this weekly column, helping fantasy baseball managers pick the best pitchers weekly. Below are the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 15, and our recommendations on whether to start or sit each pitcher. If you've got any questions about which pitchers can capitalize on a ju[...]

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann spun a gem on Friday, firing eight innings of one-run ball and striking out 11 to lead the Tigers to a win over the Texas Rangers. He issued no walks in the contest, and scattered just four hits. Zimmermann's stock is on the rise as we head into the All Star Break, as he has allowed just five runs in 25 innings of work since returning from the disabled list with a right shoulder impingement. The veteran now owns a 3.51 ERA on the year and is 4-0[...]

The dog days of summer are upon us - at least in the fantasy baseball world. If you're deep in the hole it takes a lot of effort and discipline to stay focused but it's important to remember there's still time to make up ground whether you're in a rotisserie or head-to-head league. There's plenty of help out there on the waiver wire and it all starts by identifying players of interest and tracking their progress. If you've been following along with this column all season, you would have been [...]

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Jordan Zimmermann will take the hill Friday against the Rangers, and will look to build on his strong outing in his last start. Sunday against the Blue Jays, Zim allowed just one run in seven innings of work to help snap an 11-game skid. Current Rangers batters have just 21 career at-bats against Zimmermann, but have just three hits against him. For his part, Zimmermann is 3-0 with a 2.65 ERA in his last seven starts.