Elliott looks at pitchers with surprising starts recently. These SPs could emerge as fantasy baseball waiver wire targets for Week 23 in 2025, or just mirages.

Welcome back to the " Are You For Real? " series as we dive into Week 23 of the 2025 fantasy baseball season. For those unfamiliar, this is a weekly column where we examine starting pitchers who had surprisingly strong starts over the past week and put them under the microscope to determine whether they're legitimate or just smoke and mirrors.

It was another week of exciting debuts, with two top prospect dazzling in their first MLB starts on Friday. We'll start this week with a breakdown of Jonah Tong 's debut against the Marlins. Then, we'll deep dive Payton Tolle 's debut for the Red Sox against Pittsburgh. We'll finish it

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