Tough Starting Pitcher Rankings for the Rest of 2025Eno and DVR wish FanGraphs a Happy 20th Birthday and discuss several tough rankings from Eno's final list for the 2025 season including Logan Webb, Dylan Cease, Shohei Ohtani, and Chase Burns, along with the surprising lefties -- Andrew Abbott, Jacob Lopez, and Trevor Rogers -- as the stretch run approaches. They also look at a few intriguing names on the waiver this weekend including the recently-promoted Owen Caissie, and Nolan McLean ahead of his MLB debut against the Mariners on Saturday.Plus, Niv Shah joins the show to discuss late-season ottoneu strategy with players unlikely to be kept and how to approach trading with loans versus dropping a player in hopes of a cascading effect that puts other interesting players onto waivers, and our Senior Hot Correspondent ranks the eight Taste of the Majors hot dogs from the season so far

($) Eno's Updated Starting Pitcher Rankings: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6549810

Rundown

4:12 Updates on Ronald Acuña Jr., Pablo López & Michael King

10:30 Padres-Dodgers & Great Weekend Series On Tap

21:09 Logan Webb: A Tough Rank Up Top?

25:22 Dylan Cease's Rebound & Cade Horton's Surge

31:50 Shohei Ohtani's Workload Increasing to Win Eligibility Levels

35:55 Chase Burns' Late-Season Limitations

40:40 Owen Caissie's Promotion & Playing Time Outlook

43:49 Nolan McLean Headed to the Mets' Rotation

48:18 Forrest Whitley is Pitching Well at Triple-A

53:07 LODEM Kings as Tough Rankings Too

55:02 Talking Keeper Trade/Drop Strategy w/Niv Shah

1:09:27 Taste of the Majors: Power Rankings in Mid-August

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