ALTERNATIVE: 2020 Points Draft Guide - Pitchers

Earlier this week, we focused on Points leagues with our batters preview. Today, we turn to pitchers. 

When evaluating pitchers in points leagues, you can easily find yourself a slave to the elusive, unpredictable, and migrating Win. Yes, you have injury and performance risk that always makes selecting pitching targets tricky. But in points leagues you don’t care if a hurler stinks, just that he gets his five innings with his team in the lead and hopes the bullpen can hold it.

Most leagues count a Win as 15 points. With starters averaging less innings than ever, their chance for wins decreases as well. But middle relievers remain too unpredictable to roster them for wins. So closers, as fickle as they are, have become better and better...

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