Clayton Richard (SP, SD) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: San Diego Padres starting pitcher Clayton Richard ended his 2017 season by posting a 3.52 ERA (3.69 SIERA) and being rather useful over his final 10 starts. Well, after a rocky April, Richard is back to mowing down opposing hitters with his groundball ways and now has a 3.04 ERA (3.15 SIERA) over his last seven starts.

Richards has won each of his last two starts (and four of his last five decisions), pitching seven innings in each of his last three starts. He has also struck out five batters in each of the last three starts and has pitched at least six innings in each of the last seven starts.

Batters are only managing to lift the ball in the air a measly 17.4% of the time in that seven-start sample and, while you should not buy a groundball guy holding onto a .230 BABIP, he is still going to be useful with this profile even when some regression hits.