Starting pitching statistics, as expected, continue to improve.
Since our low point on the morning of 4/5, when we had gone through 26 starts for 65 Fantasy Points - an averge of 2.50 FPPG, we've had 65 starts, averaging 7.31 FPPG over that stretch.
Moreover, in our last 44 starts, we've averaged 8.61 FPPG, all of which has brought our overall average up to a more respectable (but still pretty low) 5.93.
What I expect will happen - as we continue to tweak our rosters by adding SPs who are doing well and dropping those who are turning out to be bombs, and as blue-chippers like Santana (to name only one) straighten themselves out and start scoring as we know that they will - is that our FPPG average per start will settle in somewhere at around 11-12 or so, which lends credence to JG's comment early on, when he said after DB's whine about Oliver Perez' 16 ("Arrrggghhh, friggin' Pirates bullpen....if Perez had gotten the win....")
"16 pts.....is gonna be a great line this year with our scoring, I think."
Maybe not "great", which looks like it will be somewhere in the high 20's and above (we've had 5 games of 27 or better so far; let's not throw around the term "great" too loosely here), but certainly a total that anyone will be able to live with on any given day.
