June 1 Fantasy Baseball Streamers: Can Adrian Houser Keep Pitching Like an Ace?

Detroit looks like a legit contender. They have two more wins than any other team (38) and the third-best run differential behind just the Yankees and Cubs. It's June 1; we still have four full months of regular season before the playoffs. With the way the Tigers have been playing, though, they are likely to have the chance to win big come October.

Let's look at five starting pitchers in action on Sunday who are widely available in fantasy leagues and have good matchups. Most stats are from MLB.com, as are the probable starters. The full streamer rankings are listed at the bottom.

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Erick Fedde, St. Louis Cardinals @ Texas Rangers

Fedde has been on the wrong side with both his walk rate and strikeout rate this season, but he has still found success, allowing just 27 earned runs in 62.1 innings (3.90 ERA). That is fortunate given his negative rates, but Fedde hasn't been hit hard either, giving up just six home runs.

The Rangers hit some home runs, but they don't do much else. They rank in the bottom five in runs, hits, doubles, walks, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS. Texas is sitting three games under .500 on the strength of their pitching staff; the offense might be the thing that drags them down out of playoff contention.

Fedde is a low- to mid-level streamer. His lack of strikeouts severely caps his upside, but Fedde has found success, and the matchup is pristine.

Adrian Houser, Chicago White Sox @ Baltimore Orioles

Charlie Morton, Baltimore Orioles vs. Chicago White Sox

We've been following this series of offensive ineptitude all weekend: after Baltimore won 2-1 on Friday, both teams doubled their score in a 4-2 Orioles victory on Saturday. The starting pitchers have been the beneficiaries, with the four of them combining for 25 innings and just seven runs allowed. (Chicago's Sean Burke entered in the second inning after an opener pitched the first inning on Friday, but we'll treat him as the starting pitcher, since he threw six innings and was the listed starter.)

Houser has made two starts since signing with Chicago, combining for 12 scoreless innings with eight strikeouts and four walks. He's been a very average pitcher in his career, something we can expect going forward; he's not going to keep churning out scoreless outings.

Morton has had a brutal start for the Orioles: 1-7 record with an ERA over 7.00. His strikeout rate has been just a little below average, but Morton has also walked too many guys. The real issue is that he's been hit really hard, allowing 52 hits and 10 homers in 47 innings. He was a good pitcher throughout his career, but Morton is on the wrong side of 40, and it would be a surprise to see him bounce back to an above-average level on a floundering Baltimore team.

Houser is a low- to mid-level streamer and Morton a low-level streamer. The latter just hasn't found any success, while the former has been great but will more likely be just good moving forward.

Jack Kochanowicz, Los Angeles Angels @ Cleveland Guardians

Kochanowicz has a brutally low 12.3% strikeout rate in 2025, nearly 10 percentage points lower than league average. While his walk rate is also on the wrong side, that number was really good last year, so it has averaged out in the middle for his career. Kochanowicz is up to 125.2 career innings, and though his K% could improve, he is probably going to be well below average in that area his whole career.

Cleveland is just a bottom-10 offense, not bottom-five like the other groups we are targeting today. That gives our pitcher a little less upside, but the matchup is still worth targeting pretty much every day. Like Texas, the only thing the Guardians do well is hit home runs, and they only do that at an average level.

Kochanowicz is a low-level streamer. His strikeout work is just so poor that it keeps his ceiling very low, though he hasn't been awful with run prevention in his short time.

Randy Vasquez, San Diego Padres vs. Pittsburgh Pirates

Add the Pirates to our list of high-level targets today; the only team we're missing is the Rockies, who face Clay Holmes of the Mets (owned in too many leagues to be on our streamer list but check it out and see if you can add Holmes, as he's available in around 20% of leagues). Pittsburgh is another bottom-five group who fights among the worst in the league, not excelling anywhere and striking out at a top-10 rate.

Vasquez is another guy with a super low strikeout rate, sitting around 13.4%. His career rate is only 15.2%, so we can't expect much improvement there, keeping his ceiling low. He has also been walking too many guys this season, though he's better in his career. That hasn't stopped Vasquez from finding success: he has given up just 23 runs in 55.1 innings (3.58 ERA).

Vasquez is another low- to mid-level streamer. His strikeout work keeps his ceiling low, but Vasquez also hasn't been hit too hard.

Sunday's Streamer Rankings

1. Adrian Houser, CWS
2. Erick Fedde, STL
3. Randy Vasquez, SD
4. Charlie Morton, BAL
5. Jack Kochanowicz, LAA