STARTERS: Young targets, 2018 updated

Let's update our list of the most skilled young starting pitchers in the game in order to help you identify stretch-run targets and premium stashes in keeper leagues.

Here are the starting pitchers age 28 or under who have posted the best skills so far in 2018, using a small IP threshold of 20+ IP to give us a larger pool for analysis:

100+ BPV, Age 28 or Under*

Name            Age  Lg  Ctl  Dom   HR/9  GB%  H%/S%   hr/f  FAv   SwK%  FpK%  BPV
==============  ===  ==  ===  ====  ====  ===  ======  ====  ====  ====  ====  ===
Stripling, R     28  NL  0.9  10.3   1.4  49%  34/84%   17%  91.6  10.9%  69%  190
Corbin, P        28  NL  2.4  11.0   0.8  49%  30/73%   13%  90.5  14.4%  62%  159
Gray, J          26  NL  2.7  11.3   1.0  47% ...

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