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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 13

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Jun 25th, 2018
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​Francisco Liriano, Detroit Tigers

Start: June 28th vs. Oakland Athletics
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Let's round things out with one more crusty veteran who is set up to succeed in Week 13. After being sidelined with a hamstring strain for a month, Francisco Liriano's return to the Detroit Tigers' rotation this past weekend was far from sparkling, but he has a chance to shake off some rust this week against an Oakland team that has been flummoxed by lefties all season. Oakland has managed a very poor 16.7% strikeout-minus-walk rate against southpaws in 2018, with a bottom-four team OPS and a bottom-six liner rate in the split.

Liriano may have some limitation in terms of workload (he was pulled after four innings in his return to the rotation on Saturday), but as a relatively low-risk play in deep leagues, the veteran lefty seems like a worthy add.

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