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Fantasy Baseball: 5 Pitchers to Stream in Week 19

Tom Whalen  —  @tomcwhalen Aug 6th, 2018
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​Junior Guerra, Milwaukee Brewers

Start: August 9th vs. San Diego Padres
ESPN ownership: 36.1%

You have to admire how Junior Guerra has scraped out a quality season in the hostile home environment of Miller Park. The late-blooming Milwaukee Brewers' righty sports a 9.4% walk rate that seems like an eyesore, until you compare it to his 13.7% walk rate from 2017.

Same goes for his problem with the long ball -- that hair-raising 20.9% home-per-fly rate from last year has been reigned in to a much more manageable 11.7% mark in 115.2 frames this season, while the 33-year-old has reverted to the grounder-heavy tendencies that made him a standout for the Brewers in 2016.

Look for Guerra to keep chugging against a weak San Diego offense this week. The punchless Padres have managed a puny .113 group ISO against righties over the last month, with a 26.0% team strikeout rate that should lend Guerra a fair bit of counting-stat upside.

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