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Starting Pitcher Strategy & ADP! What is the 'Hero SP' Strategy? (3/26 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Fantasy Baseball Today

CBS Sports

Sports, Baseball

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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What is the 'Hero starting pitcher' strategy? What is the cutoff for Chris' hero starting pitcher? Who are his favorite early-round pitchers to target? Who are his favorite mid-late round starting pitchers to target after he gets that ace?


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Let's talk starting pitcher's strategy and ADP next on Fantasy Baseball Today in 5.

0:38.8

One of them into FETN5, as always, make sure to follow and stream a song

0:41.9

to Spotify. Today is Saturday, March 26th. I am Frank Stample, joined by Chris Towers,

0:46.7

and Chris recently wrote a great article on the site, breaking down ADP and strategy for this

0:52.2

position. Chris, something you talk about in that article is the hero starting pitcher strategy.

0:57.0

What is that? Yeah, so it's adopted from Fantasy Football. The ADP and Fantasy Football is you

1:03.8

kind of want one great running back, and then you kind of just want to find a number two RB at

1:10.6

some point. It's mostly about avoiding what's called the RB Dead Zone, which is like rounds three

1:16.6

through seven where running back values tend to be pretty bad in terms of their return on investment.

1:22.0

And it's just adopting a similar strategy for starting pitcher. Obviously, there are more starting

1:26.7

pitcher spots in your typical fantasy line than there are running back spots, so it's not just

1:30.8

getting one good guy for me. It's getting two. And basically, the idea is that your best investment

1:38.4

at starting pitcher historically has been first and second rounds. Those guys not only

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