Fantasy Baseball: 4 Pitchers to Stream for Week 17

Hyun-Jin Ryu, Los Angeles Dodgers

Starts: July 24th vs. Minnesota Twins, July 30th vs. San Francisco Giants
ESPN ownership: 5 percent

It's hard to get too excited about the back end of the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation when their disabled list shenanigans make it difficult to predict if and when a given starter will line up for his next turn.

The spiraling ownership of Hyun-jin Ryu, once a popular fantasy sleeper, reflects the industry-wide impatience both with the Dodgers rotation schedule and with this specific lefty, whose 4.21 ERA and good-not-great 22% strikeout rate just aren't moving the needle outside of the very deepest leagues.

There are promising stats beneath the seemingly mediocre surface results, though -- career highs in reach rate and swinging-strike rate, and a nutty 37% strikeout-minus-walk rate on signature curveball. The 204 wRC+ allowed on his fourseam is quite an eyesore, to be fair, and the cutter he's brought in to replace his ailing slider has surrendered a healthy .928 OPS.

There are warts here, for sure -- this is a player whose ownership might not exceed single digits in a potential two-start week, mind you. Desperate streamers can roll out Ryu against a Minnesota squad that's been pretty lousy against the curve all season and decidedly subpar in the power department away from home.

And if the Dodgers play the rotation straight for once, Ryu lines up to face Giants, who, we need not remind you, have been a streamer's delight all season.