After another outstanding start Thursday against the Padres, it's time for everybody -- and I do mean everybody -- to jump on the bandwagon of Reds starting pitcher Johnny Cueto. I decided to move up Cueto in my starting pitcher rankings to No. 13, which is right behind Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg.
Whether or not you buy into Cueto keeping up this pace, he's reached the status of elite Fantasy option, which means you should be able to get a nice haul if you choose to deal him. If I owned Cueto, however, I wouldn't trade him unless you really had a weakness at another position and the rest of your rotation is solid.
He was limited to 11 starts last season due to injury, but he still went 5-2 with a 2.82 ERA. Don't forget, he was also a 19-game winner in 2012. That season he finished as the ninth-highest scoring Fantasy starting pitcher in Head-to-Head formats.
Cueto's strikeout rate might be a little higher than normal and he could be facing a regression in that area, but I can definitely buy him as a top 25 Fantasy starting pitcher the rest of the season.