A lot of you are probably wondering why I haven’t been blogging as much as I did on my football site last season, so let me explain. Most of you probably don’t know this, but I actually came in about 170th place in baseball last year, a full 169 spots worse than my goal. So, this season I decided to switch it up a bit and abandon my strategies in favor of exclusive reliance on the advice of my fellow blogger Jocelyn.

So far a week of q-max explanations, chin music clarifications, and backpack jokes has left me in 5,921st place. I think I’m going to go back to doing this myself.

This year’s escalating transaction fees leave two viable strategies: 1) build up a big roster value, set a stud lineup, and stick with it, or 2) sacrifice some rotobucks for the privilege of playing the day-to-day matchups. Due to people around here giving me “work” to do when I’m trying to trade, my team value is not as high as I’d like so I’ll be going with option 2.

There are two things you need to know to play the match-ups. For pitchers, it’s fairly easy, just identify the worst offenses in baseball (quick hint: Giants, Padres, Cardinals, Pirates, Mariners, Twins). Hitters are a little more difficult because you’re trying to identify the worst pitchers in baseball, and there are a lot more pitchers than there are teams. So, to get started here are 14 pitchers that I project to allow 15% more RotoHog points per inning than the average MLB starter. If you see one of your favorite players up against these guys, I suggest you get him into your lineup. Starting with the worst:

Feel free to leave me a scathing comment about how good Morales is (with his 5.50+ career ERA in the minors), or how Glavine’s still got it (4.06, 4.17, 4.48, ….), this is my list. There are plenty of bad SPs out there, and there will always be more coming up throughout the year, but this is my starting point when it comes to hitter selection.