{"id":897,"date":"2013-07-08T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2013-07-08T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:44:26","slug":"pitchers-dominate-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/pitchers-dominate-week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitchers Dominate Week 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pitchers took the forefront in the weekly RotoValue rankings, taking four of the top 5 slots in the shallow 5×5 mixed league<\/a>. Leading the way as MVP was Rays’ starter\u00a0David Price<\/a>, who was just activated from the disabled list on Tuesday, in time to make a pair of starts. After throwing 7 scoreless innings to beat the Astros, he followed that with a complete game win over the White Sox yesterday, giving him a 0.56 ERA and 0.688 WHIP in 16 innings, for a $59.58 RotoValue. Dodgers’ ace\u00a0Clayton Kershaw<\/a>\u00a0actually posted even better percentage statistics in his 2 wins, following up a 4-hit shutout in Colorado Tuesday with 8 innings yielding just 1 run to the Rockies Sunday, giving him a 0.53 ERA and a 0.471 WHIP in 17 innings for the week. Kershaw’s RotoValue in that format wound up at $58.71, as he had only 11 strikeouts, while Price fanned 15.
\nDesmond Jennings<\/a>\u00a0topped position players in this format after a week where he hit .414 with 1 HR, 9 R, 6 RBI, and 4 SB, earning $58.14. In the deeper 5×5 AL Only<\/a>\u00a0format, Jennings earned $46.74, well ahead of David Price’s $40.53 and a $40.02 week from\u00a0Torii Hunter<\/a>. In the\u00a04×4 AL Only<\/a>\u00a0format, Hunter edged out Jennings for MVP, as he hit .444 with 2 HR, 11 RBI and 1 SB to earn $44.24, just $0.01 ahead of Jennings’s value. Hunter had only 5 runs scored on the week, which lowered his 5×5 value compared to Jennings. Price’s week earned $37.78 in that format, just behind Adrian Beltre<\/a>\u00a0(.478, 4 HR, 5 RBI) at $38.36.
\nPrice’s teammate\u00a0Matt Moore<\/a>\u00a0was nearly as effective, also posting 2 wins, with an even better 0.00 ERA in 13.33 innings. Moore also struck out 15, but his higher WHIP of 0.900 resulted in a lower RotoValue – $32.94 in 4×4 AL<\/a>, $36.88 in 5×5 AL<\/a>, and $53.75 in 5×5 Mixed<\/a>.\u00a0Jered Weaver<\/a>\u00a0also had 2 excellent wins, while Greg Holland<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0the week’s best AL closer, with 3 saves, a 0.00 ERA, and a 0.333 WHIP in 3 innings to earn $23.81 in the 4×4, and $20.93 in the 5×5 format.
\nKershaw’s week easily topped both the 4×4 NL Only<\/a>\u00a0list ($44.76) and the 5×5 NL<\/a>\u00a0 ($40.63). The top NL position player depended on format. In 5×5<\/a>,\u00a0Starling Marte<\/a>\u00a0earned $35.79 for batting .345 with 1 HR, 6 R, 1 RBI, and 5 SB, ahead of\u00a0Cody Ross<\/a>\u00a0($33.50; .323, 2 HR, 6 R, 5 RBI, 1 SB) and\u00a0Alfonso Soriano<\/a>\u00a0($33.06; .250, 3 HR, 3 R, 9 RBI, 0 SB). But in 4×4<\/a>, Soriano’s 9 RBI and 3 HR earned $39.39 to rank as top position player, ahead of\u00a0Juan Uribe<\/a>\u00a0($36.28; .300, 2 HR, 11 RBI).
\nMets’ rookie\u00a0Jeremy Hefner<\/a>\u00a0was the league’s 2nd best pitcher, with a pair of 7-inning wins, as he posted a 14 strikeouts, a 1.29 ERA and 0.643 WHIP on the week to earn $36.72 in 4×4 and $37.58 in NL-only 5×5.\u00a0Homer Bailey<\/a>\u00a0no-hit the Giants, fanning 9 while yielding just 1 walk, but that was his only start. Just 1 win left him earning $26.47 in 4×4, and $25.26 in 5×5 NL-only, which ranked him the 5th best pitcher in each format.\u00a0Edward Mujica<\/a>\u00a0was the league’s top closer, earning $27.13 in 4×4, and $20.97 in 5×5, after notching a win and 2 saves in 4.67 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pitchers took the forefront in the weekly RotoValue rankings, taking four of the top 5 slots in the shallow 5×5 mixed league. Leading the way as MVP was Rays’ starter\u00a0David Price, who was just activated from the disabled list on Tuesday, in time to make a pair of starts. After throwing 7 scoreless innings to… Continue reading Pitchers Dominate Week 14<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,6,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}