Is it the All-Star break yet?
Several fantasy baseball teams are limping into the season’s midpoint, including mine. With the All-Star break approaching, go ahead and find your team a two-start pitcher for week 14 in fantasy baseball.
Luis Castillo, SP, Cincinnati Reds
Castillo isn’t someone who you can trust on a regular basis. For this week, though, he offers decent value as a two-start pitcher.
When he’s on, he’s a pitcher who can rack up the strikeouts, so that’s a plus with matchups set against the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs this week.
The White Sox are a bottom-five offense in Major League Baseball, while the Cubs are struggling at times to formulate much consistency.
And even at times, Castillo has been dominant through the opposition’s lineup. His biggest issue is being able to maintain that dominance the entire game, with at three allowed earned runs in each of the last six games.
He’s been showing some progress in recent outings, so expect a solid two starts in week 14.
Brent Suter, SP, Milwaukee Brewers
The nice thing about Suter is that he’s still available on the waiver wire.
Suter was named Milwaukee’s pitcher of the month in June, even after a rough outing on June 27 against Kansas City. Don’t worry, though, he was cruising through most of that start, before running into some trouble and allowing four earned runs.
That’s the first time he’s allowed more than three earned runs since May 12.
The matchups aren’t great this week with tilts against Minnesota and Atlanta, but I still trust Suter, who has been one of the better pitchers in recent weeks in Major League Baseball.
He has at least six strikeouts in five of the last eight games, so he’s offering plenty of hope in multiple categories. He’s owned in less than 40 percent of fantasy baseball leagues, so make sure he has room on your roster this week.
