Carlos Hernandez (SP, KCR) - Week 20 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in leagues of 14+ teams

ROSTERED IN: 2% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Hernandez has had back-to-back good performances in his last two outings against the White Sox, and that makes him worth considering as a deeper format streaming option. He allowed seven runs over 6 2/3 innings in his first two starts of the season against Baltimore and Detroit, but now over his last two trips to the mound he's allowed just one run over 11 innings of work.

He'll open up the week against New York, as they are slashing .245/.332/.372 and averaging 4.6 runs per game over their last 10 games. However most of that offense comes from the last two games of their series with Baltimore which ended in blowouts victories, as the Yankees were slashing .196/.304/.280 over the seven games leading up to the Baltimore blowouts. He'll be helped in this outing by the fact that the Yankees are hitting worse against right-handed pitching this year (.226/.315/.377) than against lefties (.259/.344/.431). Hernandez will then close out the week against a St. Louis squad that is not only hitting worse against right-handers (.234/.303/.385) than against left-handers (.235/.311/.394), but they're also hitting worse on the road (.223/.298/.391) than at home (.246/.312/.382).

We're going off a small body of work with Hernandez as a starter, but it looks like there's enough there on paper that he could put up solid value in deeper formats this week. It's unlikely that he'll put up an impressively dominant performance, but he should more than provide a good boost if his last two starts are to be believed.

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