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Looky there. Brett Anderson managed to stay healthy for more than four starts. Wouldn't that have been something back in, oh, 2010? Yeah, it would have, but see back then, strikeouts weren't as prevalent across the majors, so a rate of 5.8 per nine innings like Anderson had last year wouldn't have been a deal-breaker in Fantasy. And it still wouldn't be a deal-breaker if he consistently went 7-8 innings, especially for a winning team. But combine a back-end workload with some back-end ratios, and well, you get a pretty low-end option. That's not to say Anderson is a bad pitcher -- his ground-ball ratio ranked ahead of even Dallas Keuchel, which should ensure a respectable ERA -- but better to add him off waivers as needed than invest a draft pick in him.