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Louie Varland is a fantasy baseball waiver wire pickup for pitchers heading into Week 7 (2023). Target Varland as a free agent pitcher on the waiver wire.
BALLER MOVE: Add in all leagues
ROSTERED IN: 7% of leagues
ANALYSIS:
Varland was one of those rookie pitchers that did not have a great start in the box score this week. However, his underlying metrics were stunning. Varland put up an elite 17.2% SwStr% and a 40.2% CSW% on the 87 pitches he threw against the White Sox. Again, the box score results weren't great as he gave up seven hits and four earned runs in 4.2 innings, but man – it's not easy to generate a CSW% and SwStr% that high.
Here's a histogram of all CSW rates for every start made by a pitcher this year (80+ pitches thrown):
You can see that Varland is at the upper tail of that distribution, and for those of you not statistically inclined – that's a really good thing. I'm adding Varland right now even in shallow leagues.
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