Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream for Week 21

Jon Gray, Colorado Rockies

Starts: August 22nd at Kansas City Royals, August 27th at Atlanta Braves
ESPN ownership: 50 percent

If Jon Gray maintains the results we've seen over the past two weeks, the former top prospect might enter 2018 drafts without the requisite "yeah but Coors Field" discount. The Colorado Rockies righty totes a 2.68 ERA and 3.14 expected fielding independent pitching (xFIP) over his last 18.2 innings, in large part thanks to a 58.9% grounder rate than has likely helped offset the fly-ball volatility of his hitter-friendly home park.

Streamers won't need to sweat the Coors effect this week, as Gray's pair of road starts make him a very interesting streaming option.

We shouldn't pencil the Kansas City Royals in as de facto targets, though, at least not to the extent that they were earlier this season. No, Kansas City has actually been a top-five offense over the past month, boasting a stingy 18.7% team strikeout rate and a bottom-four team grounder rate that could make things tough on Gray.

Still, the Royals' team isolated slugging (ISO) over that span is less than stellar, even if, oddly enough, that mark has improved at the normally power-suppressant Kauffman Stadium.

You'd have to really fear that Royals matchup to say no to a turn against the Atlanta Braves, a bottom-six producer over the last month, during which time they've been the least-disciplined offense in baseball.