DAILY MATCHUPS: McClanahan tabbed as Wednesday's best

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Wednesday’s schedule includes 14 games. The Mets and Yankees are idle on a day comprised of six day games and eight night games. Six of the contests are of the interleague variety. Matchup Ratings show a field of starters tilted toward the ends of the bell curve, a field chock full of opportunities and pitfalls. Benign weather is in the forecast all the way around.

 

Notable Starts:

Shane McClanahan continues to get a lot of ground balls and keep hard contact in check and yet get hurt by a higher-than-average HR/F rate. The Rays lefty owns a 4.40 ERA over his last five starts, but indicators remain strong. McClanahan totes a 2.29 ERA/2.49 xERA into Wednesday’s turn against an Angels club that struggles...

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