Ray’s Rundown 10/5: Starting Pitching & 2021 Drafting

Ray offers some updates on the playoffs and particularly the pitching rotations. Does any team have three starting pitchers they trust? Has the game devolved into merely game after game of bullpen battles? Is that good for the sport? Ray compares the 2020 season to 2000 to illustrate the massive change we’ve witnessed in how starting pitchers are used. Ray will also look at the early returns of the first 30 selections of the first National Fantasy Baseball Championship draft that has already begun. How aggressive are the participants at taking pitchers despite so many early round failures in 2020? Who is surging into the first round that we didn’t expect to see there nine months ago?