Roy Halladay had his best start of the year last night, throwing seven innings with six strikeouts, two walks and only giving up two earned runs (both home runs). His fastball sat between 89-90, but touched 92 three or four times. Other than the two home runs there were only one other instance a ball was hit hard. Even though only 54% of his pitches were strikes, he painted the corners consistently, especially with his cutter to right handed batters and curveball to left handed batters.

Stephen Strasburg’s night didn’t start out the way he would’ve hoped for; with an error by Ian Desmond on a fairly routine ground ball hit Jordany Valdespin to begin the game. For the first six, seven batters his fastball command was off, but he eventually settled down and retired 14 batters straight before allowing a home run to Ike Davis. His curveball wasn’t effective as a lot of the Mets batters laid off of it. Oh by the way, for all the fantasy owners who wanted to drop Davis because of his slow start should hopefully settle down. If you drafted him, like I did, you have give him at least 150 plate appearances before jumping ship.

Matt Harvey has looked great this year, but the hype surrounding him is growing out of control. He looked pretty good last night (and his career), but not to the level of Dwight Gooden, as he was constantly compared to on the Mets broadcast all last night. I have serious concerns about his secondary offerings, especially the changeup and curveball. Right now, those pitches are more “show me” pitches in order to not let hitters set dead red on his fastball. In order for him to maintain his effectiveness he’s going to refine these more because eventually hitter’s are going to layoff of the fastball up in the zone and he’ll have to rely on those pitches to get outs.

Quick Hits: Brett Anderson hurt himself again last night in Tampa. He sprained his ankle on a pitch to Yunel Escobar. Anderson is one of the least athletic pitchers in the game and I’m starting to believe this will lead to injuries like this all the time. If Anderson goes on the DL, Dan Straily will be called up…If you read my free agent pickups column about Lucas Duda last week you’re a very happy fantasy owner…I’m not buying Wandy Rodriguez. Despite the Braves record, they’re offense will be extremely susceptible to hot and cold streaks because their propensity to strikeout a lot and not walk at all.