Strategic Spot Starting - Weekend Edition

First, I'd like to recommend our home site, MLBFrontOffice, for live blogging of the baseball draft. It should be interesting, especially if the Pirates fail to take Pedro Alvarez and I lose all faith in my home team. But our post is about pitchers, and pitchers we shall look...

Friday: I'm not a huge fan of Joe Blanton, but his matchup in Anaheim isn't too shabby (career ERA 3.56, likely lack of Guerrero in addition to Figgins). On the other side of town, Sean Gallagher goes up against the Dodgers, who have been lackluster and play in a pitchers park. Darrell Rasner against KC is a fairly safe bet, alongside Bartolo Colon in Seattle. Both should be good for solid peripherals and the win. Andrew Miller is an okay option in deep leagues, facing the Reds. Miller pitched well against high power, low OBP teams like Arizona, so he could be worth using there. 

Saturday: Tim Wakefield against Seattle: He is the poster child for spot starts (last start against Seattle, 8 IP, 1 ER, 8 Ks). With four straight games of giving up 2 ER in 6+ IP, Jonathon Sanchez will likely do just that against Washington. Shawn Hill is his opponent, and offers decent value in the start, but not as much as Sanchez. Yahoo constantly reminds me that Greg Smith has been dropped in eighty-five millions leagues, but Texas was clearly a bad matchup and the Angels aren't nearly as rough.

Sunday: Masterson, like all of the Red Sox pitchers, is worth using against Seattle. Garza at Texas is Greg Smith at Texas (read above: Spoiler - won't be pretty).