Full disclosure: I did not have a great year with starting pitchers. In my early drafts, I was heavily exposed to George Kirby and Grayson Rodriguez , and I had Framber Valdez , Dylan Cease , and Pablo Lopez on a lot of my teams as "stabilizers." Whoops.

It wasn't all bad, of course – I had Nick Lodolo and Jesus Luzardo as two of my favorite sleepers, and Robbie Ray and Bryan Woo were two of my favorite breakouts. Those worked out, and I had a few other low-end hits as well.

But I also missed out on a lot of the most valuable pitchers who defined the 2025 season. I didn't have Jacob deGrom , Garrett Crochet , or Yoshinobu Yamamoto on any of my teams. I had Cristopher Sanchez on a few teams, which was nice, but he wasn't nearly enough of a priority for me in the

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