Is Tarik Skubal the Best Fantasy Baseball Pitcher? Top 3 Analysis
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00:03 - Is Tarek Skubal the best pitcher in fantasy baseball?
00:07 - Arguably, yes.
00:12 So it's probably, it's between probably him,
00:16 Zach Wheeler and Corbin Burns are probably the top three.
00:20 So Skubal, for the uninitiated,
00:24 Skubal took a step forward about two years ago
00:28 where he really honed in his command
00:31 and he was able to, and because of the command
00:34 was so, is so good now, he's able to pinpoint his fastball,
00:39 which was previously solid,
00:42 but nowhere near as effective as it's been,
00:45 like recently in the last two years.
00:48 And that was coming off of the injury last year.
00:51 So he's now roughly like at least a top five
00:56 starting pitcher, roughly the, you know,
00:59 maybe the top three.
01:01 He is as good as advertised.
01:04 His probably, his one drawback for season long fantasy
01:08 is gonna be his inability to throw many innings.
01:11 Like last year, you mentioned he had 15 starts.
01:15 He threw about 80 innings.
01:17 This year, maybe he gets to 120 innings.
01:21 That's nowhere near a number that like, you know,
01:24 the other guys I mentioned, the Zach Wheelers
01:27 or the Corbin Burns are gonna get to.
01:29 They're gonna, they'll probably be pushing 170 plus innings.
01:33 But yeah, Skubal's as good as those other guys,
01:38 you know, probably a 10.5, 10 plus, K per nine,
01:43 a low two, if not in the ones on the walk per nine.
01:50 He's like neutral luck, 2.5 ERA guy.
01:55 Like he's really good.
01:57 It's kind of crazy.
01:58 Out of all the Tigers starters that seem to be, you know,
02:03 in the pipeline for them, there was like the Casey Mises,
02:06 the Matt Mannings.
02:07 There was a bunch of guys there that looked like
02:09 they could have developed at some point.
02:11 And Skubal was the one that ended up developing.
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