DAILY MATCHUPS: Tanaka looks to dominate the Rays

As a way to preview the day's games, the 2014 Daily Matchups column seeks to highlight the outliers or notable matchups on BaseballHQ.com's Starting Pitcher Report (also available as an 8-day scan). For more information on how to leverage the report, see our research article from 2012.

 

Today's schedule overview: All teams are in action today with ten games under the lights. Pittsburgh hosts Toronto in the second game of the weekend's only interleague matchup.

 

Best SP choices:

  • Masahiro Tanaka (RHP, NYY) has been even better than Yankees fans and fantasy players could have hoped for. All five of his major league starts have been PQS-DOM performances; four of them PQS-5s. Some of his BPIs look like video game numbers (11.6 Dom, 1.5...

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