Weekly Planner

Week 12

by Paul Sporer

One start in for most of last week’s Weekly Planner picks and there have been some bumps in the road for American League hurlers: Brandon Morrow succumbing to injury, Felipe Paulino hitting the DL before the week even got started, and Josh Beckett, Wei-Yin Chen, and Alex Cobb all getting batted around. While they weren’t necessarily difficult choices, I was pleased to have led you down the right path with the AL sits.

Bud Norris, who is clearly ailing with a bum knee, was the only failure in the NL starts. There were some sits who had palatable outings, but they were wait-and-see (Chris Young) or prove-it-to-us (Randall Delgado) guys anyway. Josh Johnson did not disappoint in his return to “auto-start” status.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Auto-Starts: David Price, C.C. Sabathia, Jake Peavy

Three studs here, though Sabathia’s ERA has been a tick higher than expected, especially in light of his excellent skills, which include a career-high 9.0 K/9. Peavy has been a tad wobbly of late, but it’s nothing to panic about.

Start
Clay Buchholz (vs. MIA; vs. ATL)
Scott Diamond (@ PIT; @ CIN)
Matt Harrison (@ SD; vs. COL)
Tom Milone (vs. LAD; vs. SF)

I have never been much of a believer in Buchholz, but he has been excellent of late, so I checked out his last two starts and saw some really nice things. He has a 2.61 ERA in 41 innings over the last calendar month, and that includes a five-earned-run outing in five innings at Baltimore. He shut them out on June 7, however, as a nice little payback.

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