STARTERS: Very early slow start sells, 2018
Apr 20 2018
This is the time of the year when we preach the value of exercising excruciating patience when it comes to early bad results.
That said, very bad early stats or skills by some SP can be signs that should make you consider selling or dumping them, especially if their skills show multiple signs of worry. This is especially the case if you have big holes in other areas of your roster that you can patch by trading away SP who have ominous early-season skills.
Here are several SP in each league that might be worth shopping or dropping.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Andrew Cashner (RHP, BAL) owns an early 3.00 ERA and 1.25 WHIP, marks that might take you back to the days when he was an impact SP. Not so fast though. His skills don't give any support to...
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