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2023 Player Outlook

Wainwright is a certified workhorse who has been as stable as they come for St. Louis over the past, I don’t know, 17 years! His curveball is a work of art, and just mesmerizing to watch, every single time he throws it. Wainwright will provide your fantasy team with plenty of innings and a solid ERA, but his already low strikeout rate is dwindling, and his whiff rate has been in the 10th percentile or worse in three of the last four years. Last year, his chase rate bottomed out in the 10th percentile, and many fantasy managers prefer to only use the St. Louis righty when pitching at home. For his career, he has a 2.86 ERA at home, and in 2022, his 4.73 ERA on the road paled in comparison to his 2.98 mark at home. Wainwright is pretty cheap in drafts, and if you take some risks earlier on with your rotation, he’s a stable, reliable guy that you can count on to help your team’s ERA and rack up innings to offset earlier risks.