ROTISSERIE: Santana Plan anchors for 2020—Part II

The first article in this two-parter explained the Santana Plan roster construction strategy and discussed the Santana Plan anchors entering the 2020 season. Today, we’ll apply the same principles to other starting pitchers.

Preliminarily, let’s distinguish the original Santana Plan research from today’s article. The Santana Plan anchor research is a robust result with decades of data to support it, so it really demands your attention. Today’s article is more subjective and should be expected to have a lower success rate. For example, while last year’s article contained many accurate forecasts (such as Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole, Aaron Nola and Blake Snell), it also contained several misses (e.g. Shane Bieber and Rick Porcello). Even...

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