Not that you'd sit just any pitcher, of course, but if you're looking to stream with a spot or two, you've come to the right place. Scott White has 10 recommendations for the upcoming scoring period, all rostered in less than 80 percent of CBS Sports leagues. Most likely, they're the best you'll find off the waiver wire.
All information is up to date as of Sunday evening.
Sleeper pitchers for Week 13 (June 17-23)
Hunter Brown has been fading his four-seamer of late and has seemingly turned his season around with a 2.41 ERA, 0.93 WHIP and 10.3 K/9 in his past seven appearances. It seems unlikely that the White Sox, of all teams, would put an end to that run.
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Taj Bradley is showing the makings of an elite bat-misser in his second major-league season. The Twins are a mid-tier lineup, but he just had an 11-strikeout gem against a similar Cubs lineup in his latest outing.
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The matchups are terrible, with the one at Coors Field being particularly scary, but Jake Irvin has been so reliable all season that he's sort of automatic in a two-start week. If you're apprehensive about this one, though, then the next seven probably aren't for you either.
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As with Irvin, the matchups are less than ideal, but Albert Suarez has pitched to a 1.61 ERA and and 1.05 WHIP so far. Particularly with the Orioles lineup backing him, he's pretty close to automatic with two starts.
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Braxton Garrett is coming off a pair of bumpy starts and doesn't seem to have as sharp of a slider as a year ago. But he's had some good outings, too, and has the benefit of facing two bottom-seven offenses this week.
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After falling into a bit of a rut, Alec Marsh did a better job mixing his six pitches in his latest start against the Yankees and wound up one-hitting them over seven innings. If he can do that to that lineup, imagine what he could do to the Athletics to the open this week -- and he gets a second start to boot.
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Kyle Gibson's starts have been good, for the most part, with the strikeouts ticking up in the last few on the strength of his sweeper. He should be in for more of the same against a Marlins lineup that rates as the second-worst in baseball by runs scored.
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Brandon Pfaadt has been one of the biggest underachievers by xERA but hopefully began to close that gap with a strong performance against the Angels last time out. He'll be facing a Nationals lineup this week that isn't a total breeze but does rank in the bottom third in runs scored.
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I know I said I'd cool it on the Reese Olson hype (including in the video auto-playing on this very article), but these matchups are too tempting for me to forgo him in a points league, where it's less about ratios than pure accumulation. The White Sox are of course the lowest-scoring team in baseball, and the Braves are right in the middle of the pack even with their recent surge.
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Even in his best starts this year, Triston McKenzie has struggled to keep the WHIP down because of all the walks, so this recommendation is strictly for Head-to-Head points leagues. But in that format that rewards volume over efficiency, you have to like what he's working with this week, facing two lineups (Mariners and Blue Jays) that rank in the bottom third in runs scored.
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