STARTERS: Very early slow start holds, 2019
Apr 12 2019
With only extremely tiny data samples available to us after two weeks of the season, it's hard to put a lot of analytical reliability in skills at this point in the season.
That said, many owners will make rash drop decisions very early in the year once they start to accrue bad stats from their SP. Nobody wants to accrue bad stats. However, those knee-jerk reactions will prevent you from enjoying the ride up when skilled SP see their bad stats correct over time.
Let's take a closer look at several SP in each league whose bad starts shouldn't cause you to panic.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Matt Harvey (RHP, LAA) owns an ugly 10.05 ERA and 1.95 WHIP after three starts. His base skills haven't been any better: 6.9 Dom, 4.4 Ctl, 42% GB%, 26 BPV. But...
Almost!
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