Elliott looks at pitchers with surprising starts recently. These SPs could emerge as fantasy baseball waiver wire targets for Week 21 in 2025, or just mirages.

Welcome back to the " Are You For Real? " series as we dive into Week 21 of the 2025 fantasy baseball season. For those unfamiliar, this is a weekly column where we examine starting pitchers who had surprisingly strong starts over the past week and put them under the microscope to determine whether they're legitimate or just smoke and mirrors.

It was all about the rookies this week, as we've got three exciting rookies to break down. First, we'll deep dive Hurston Waldrep 's strong start against the Guardians on Friday. Then, we'll look at Nolan McLean 's dominant debut on Saturday. We'll finish it off by putting Kansas City'

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