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Louie Varland - Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Waiver Wire Adds for Week 8

BALLER MOVE:  Add in all leagues

ROSTERED IN: 16% of leagues

ANALYSIS:  

Varland is the priority pick-up under 50% owned this week. What he's done in his three starts has been really impressive. Here's the whole list of pitchers this year with 3+ GS, a K% above 27%, a BB% below 9%, and a SwStr% above 15%:

Pitcher GS K% BB% SwStr%
Pablo Lopez 8 31% 7% 16.3%
Luis Castillo 8 28% 5% 16.3%
Cristian Javier 8 29% 5% 15.7%
Clayton Kershaw 8 29% 5% 16.2%
Kevin Gausman 7 34% 4% 15.6%
Joe Ryan 7 27% 4% 15.2%
Hunter Greene 7 29% 9% 16.4%
Freddy Peralta 7 27% 8% 15.5%
Louie Varland 3 28% 7% 15.5%

It's a smaller sample size for Varland, but for what it's worth – he was absolutely dominant in the minor leagues (40% K%, 6.5% BB%).

To say more, Varland has above-average SwStr% on three different pitches, his four-seamer (12.4%), his cutter (15.9%), and his changeup (22.7%). To that he adds a decent slider, so he has a lot of different ways to go. We learned this week that Tyler Mahle is done for the year needing Tommy John surgery, so there is a  long-term spot in the rotational available now and I think Varland is going to take it and keep it.

 

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