Start Daisuke, Baker, or neither?

[49ersavior]

Daisuke vs. Seattle and Vargas today or Baker vs. Kc. Both have had a good last 2 starts, but I'm leaning towards Daisuke as he looked exceptional vs. the Angels last week. Then again Seattle is hot and is coming off a sweep in Detroit, and KC just got swept by Cleveland making Baker also look good. Thoughts?

H2H Espn standard league, 10 pts per win, 1 pt per k, -1 per hit/bb, 1pt per .1 IP, -2 per ER

[mixmastamikal]

I thought about picking Dice K up as well but t just scares me too much. If you are desperate for a win I would say maybe do it but looking at his history against the mariners they have a .308 BAA and an ops of .903 in 63 AB's. In this sample size justin smoak only accounts for an 0-3 and looks like he could be a factor in today's game. Another thing I would look at is how much you need K's right now/ K/9, K/BB. Dice k did strike out 9 last time out but is the first time this season he has struck out more than 3 and is still issuing quite a few free passes. Scott baker however looks far better on paper, in 101ABs against him the current royals have been limited to a .218 BAA, and .716 Ops he also has a 3:1 K:BB against them in this time. He has at least 5 k's in his last 3 starts and has only walked 2 at most in that time. I am not going to say whether to start either of them or not because i don't know what you need or how your league is scored but of the 2 i like Baker better but won't be picking anyone up for a spot start today......

I would like to note though if Dice-k does have a good outing today I am very tempted in using him from here forward just now ready quite yet.........

[49ersavior]

The league is in all together scoring H2H. There's no starts per week limit, and I'm down by a good 30 pts with 2 days to go, and I have 3 more starts coming up whereas he has 4. So I'm just trying to even it up with a ww start or 2 and make up some of the ground. I might however look at Saturdays probables on the ww b/c it looks like there are more solid options.