STARTERS: Very early slow start sells, 2021
Apr 24 2021
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 high on 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 that are carrying ominous early-season skills.
Here are several SP in each league that might be worth shopping or dropping.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Dylan Cease (RHP, CHW) has put up a mixed bag of stats so far in 2021 (3.86 ERA, 1.71 WHIP in 13 IP). Sure, that's a tiny sample size. And his 36% H% certainly has inflated his WHIP....
Almost!
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