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the up carrot thingy next to a (starting) pitcher's name means that he's starting today. barring some sort of a dave dravecky situation during warmups, that is the case. typically you wanna flank your RP/P slots with as many closers/pimp-relievers as you can get, as it's always a good idea to get out to a lead in saves and deal from a position of strength instead of freaking the fuck out cuz some asshat, you know, "that guy" with a cellphone/app and less of a life than you is on top of every bit of baseball news, especially closer/callup related stuff.
in the roto format there's an innings limit of 1400 in standard leagues, so you wanna be mindful of that. typically figure you're gonna roll with ~5-6 starters at a time, but if you're having a good run early and able to jump out to ~600-700 innings of like 2.94/1.13 or something, again, you can deal from a position of strength. ideally i like to do that with pitching since a solid % of them fall off as the year go on, i mean, i used to make a bounty in random public leagues moving dan haren by the all-star break before his annual pilgrimage towards a 4.00 ERA left him in the low 3s. sometimes pitchers become effective late, or sometimes an asshole like mat latos sucks to high hell in april, breaks out ~april 30th/may 1st vs the giants, and then goes on a run of 20 consecutive starts with 2ER or less. you want that. so try to be mindful of box scores and whatnot... take chances on kids... roll the dice, but try to be somewhat tyrannical and don't start tolerating failure that much otherwise you're gonna have a 3.75+ ERA. typically i refuse to accept that under any circumstances and i typically end up 3.40 or less unless someone goes ricky romero on me last year. goddammit.
obviously you can look ahead at days and see who's starting and why... under the players tab if you're hard up for starting pitching (H2H format only) there's a P (probable) category to see who's available and starting.... and uhmmmm viva matt moore and jeremy hellickson. vaya con dios, senor.