Elliott looks at pitchers with surprising starts recently. These SPs could emerge as fantasy baseball waiver wire targets for Week 24 in 2025, or just mirages.

Welcome back to the " Are You For Real? " series as we dive into Week 24 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.

Deep league players rise up! This week we'll be looking at two pitchers who are rostered in less than 5% of Yahoo! leagues in Kyle Freeland and Brad Lord . We'll also be deep diving another exciting rookie in Cleveland's Parker Messick .

Roster percentages are taken from Yahoo! and

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