If you've got these guys on your active roster, you're asking for trouble.

Taking cross-sections of a starting pitcher's skills can reveal interesting buying opportunities.

[free] The list of starting pitchers who have posted the best command (K/BB) ratio so far this spring contains some surprising names.

The end game is where you will earn most of the profit from your starting rotation. Here's why guys like Marco Estrada (RHP, MIL), Danny Duffy (LHP, KC), Brian Matusz (LHP, BAL), and Kris Medlen (RHP, ATL) are premium targets.

If you're banking on elite stats again from Jered Weaver (RHP, LAA), here's why you should be worried.

Guys like Felipe Paulino (RHP, KC) can help you earn a profit from your starting rotations this season.

Remember him? If you're building a LIMA Plan staff, you should.

In the coming weeks, we will be bombarded with news that a starting pitcher is working on a new pitch or is feeling the best he has felt in years. Most of this is noise. The better storylines to follow in spring training are the more subtle ones.

If you don't have guys like Parker, Slowey, Owings, Volquez, Volstad, and even Zambrano on your watch lists heading into spring training, here's why you are making a mistake.

It's easy to fall in love with strong half seasons. It's also easy to read too much into them. After all, the midpoint of the season is an arbitrary cutoff, and there are bound to be performance swings between any few months of data. That said, many starting pitchers who surge down the stretch often are better speculations than others. Let's take a look at the SP whose BPV increased the most between the first and second halves of 2011:

You won't be able to earn a profit on these starting pitchers on draft day.