2026 Santana Plan Anchors - Part 1
Mar 6 2026
The Santana Plan is a roster construction strategy that advocates buying one elite starting pitcher that satisfies statistical screens over the past two seasons. These anchors are not necessarily the best starting pitchers for 2026 but instead are the elite starters who are most likely to retain in 2026 the skills they displayed in 2025.
For background about the Santana Plan, see pages 78-79 of the 2024 edition of the Baseball Forecaster. One key finding is that Santana Plan anchors retained 79% of their skills value from the prior season compared to 52% for the pitching pool as a whole. In addition, it was demonstrated that using the statistical screening for identifying Santana Plan starters works better than a simple “pick any...
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