Lance Lynn (SP, MIN) - Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Lance Lynn has turned things around with four consecutive quality starts after forgetting that he was supposed to get batters out to open 2018. That being the case, you still cannot buy that his command woes are truly gone.

He has still totaled 11 walks alongside the 21 strikeouts over 24 ⅔ innings during this “resurgent” stretch and has issued four or more free passes in half of his 12 outings this season. His fastball does look livelier and he leans on his heater (and its cousin, the sinker) over 70% of the time, so that is important. His other saving grace has been avoiding homers -- he has kept the ball in the yard over his last five starts -- but his iffy 4.23 xFIP over this four-start QS span shows what can happen if that reverses.

It wise to be careful about picking up Lynn is more shallow leagues, but he is a good streamer in deeper leagues. Just be ready to jump ship quickly if the bottom falls out.