Inconsistency has been Carlos Rodon’s calling card this year.
When he’s good, he’s capable of giving fantasy baseball owners a decent amount of strikeouts against a limited amount of walks.
However, when he’s bad, he’s walking too many hitters and allowing too much contact.
This week, though, I’m expecting the good Rodon against the Boston Red Sox, so he’d be worth picking up off the waiver wire for a good back-end start.
The good part of Rodon this season is although he’s struggled to a 1-3 record to open the season, he’s logged at least six innings in four of five starts. His ERA is too high to consider as a long-time option at 4.33, but he’s shown the ability to limit runs in three of five starts, allowing four combined earned runs in those starts.
He’s consistently at six to seven strikeouts in his starts, allowing fantasy owners to pick up good production in that category, too.
The biggest question mark is his ability to stay consistent. In his last game against Baltimore, he went five innings without giving up a run. The only problem is that in the other two innings of that start, he allowed six runs.
It will take a little while before I start putting more trust in Rodon, but I like his matchup this week based on Boston’s inability to hit left-handed pitching.
The Red Sox have scored the least amount runs this year in Major League Baseball against lefties at eight runs in 113 at-bats. Their batting average is atrocious at .204.
I’m going with the good Rodon this week for a back-end start on Thursday for my fantasy baseball roster.
