Pitching Help: Clayton Richard

I've been on the Richard bandwagon and off of it. I think I'm about to buy another ticket to get back on. Clayton Richard has given me some good games, he also given me some horrible ones. However, he is available in most leagues and has now strung together two excellent starts. How is 16 innings, a 1.13 ERA, 10 strikeouts, and only 4 walks. Not bad at all, in fact, it's downright good! If you take him, you will likely have to take the bad with the good. My personal hope is that it will be a lot more good then bad. He has shown that he can pitch very well in the majors, so hopefully the bad games can be chalked up to 'learning experiences' for the young lefty. Shallow leagues can probably ignore him except for a spot start in a favorable match-up, the rest should decide if they can take a few rough games if they get some gems like he has been pitching lately. -Scout Monkey

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