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What’s up RotoBallers. Below are all of the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 17, including our recommendation on whether to start or sit them for your fantasy baseball teams. Next to each matchup below, we also have a link to our Premium Starting Pitcher Daily Matchups, Streamers & DFS Tool. For those who aren't aware, our in-house tool analyzes SP matchups based on a variety of stats/metrics, and recommends whether start, sit, or stream any pitcher for seasonal and DFS leagues. It's pretty cool.
For every week of the fantasy baseball season, we look to analyze all of the projected starting pitcher matchups and put together our optimal lineups. This week there aren't quite as many great two-start pitchers, but some of them include Price, Gray, Lynn, Syndergaard, Fernandez, Zimmermann, Garcia and Shields. As always, there are also viable starting pitcher sleepers and streamers to consider off the waiver wire (Santana, Corbin, Jungmann, Wisler, Shoemaker, Duffy, Leake, Ray), depending on your league size and format including AL-Only and NL-Only leagues.
Here at RotoBaller, we believe that it’s key to analyze every SP matchup, each and every week, to help determine which SPs to start/sit and to hopefully find some hidden gems to bolster your teams. This weekly piece considers all of the pitching performances thus far this season, the pitcher’s opponents, their career stats against the opponent, some ballpark factors and historical splits. With all of this information, we then provide our start/sit recommendations for each starting pitcher matchup for the approaching week of fantasy baseball.
SP Matchups & Start/Sit Recommendations
Editor’s Note: RotoBaller’s fantasy baseball waiver wire pickups list is updated every single day. Our awesome writers bring you analysis on hot or emerging starting pitchers, and also all other fantasy positions. You can also download our waiver wire iPhone app for free, and easily stay updated.
Note that MLB teams usually shuffle their rotations at the beginning of the week, so I’ll try my best to update the matchups throughout the day:
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - MONDAY (7/27/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ARI@SEA | Robbie Ray SP | ARI | Start | Mike Montgomery SP | SEA | Sit |
| ATL@BAL | Alex Wood SP | ATL | Sit | Kevin Gausman SP | BAL | Sit |
| CHW@BOS | John Danks SP | CHW | Sit | Joe Kelly SP | BOS | Sit |
| CIN@STL | Raisel Iglesias RP | CIN | Sit | Lance Lynn SP | STL | Start |
| COL@CHC | Jorge De La Rosa SP | COL | Start | Kyle Hendricks SP | CHC | Sit |
| DET@TB | Anibal Sanchez SP | DET | Start | Nathan Karns SP | TB | Sit |
| KC@CLE | Edinson Volquez SP | KC | Start | Cody Anderson SP | CLE | Sit |
| MIL@SF | Kyle Lohse SP | MIL | Sit | Chris Heston RP | SF | Start |
| NYY@TEX | Ivan Nova SP | NYY | Sit | Matt Harrison SP | TEX | Sit |
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - TUESDAY (7/28/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ARI@SEA | Zack Godley SP | ARI | Sit | Hisashi Iwakuma SP | SEA | Start |
| ATL@BAL | Julio Teheran SP | ATL | Sit | Ubaldo Jimenez SP | BAL | Sit |
| CHW@BOS | Jeff Samardzija SP | CHW | Start | Wade Miley SP | BOS | Sit |
| CIN@STL | Mike Leake SP | CIN | Start | Jaime Garcia SP | STL | Start |
| COL@CHC | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| DET@TB | David Price SP | DET | Start | Jake Odorizzi SP | TB | Sit |
| KC@CLE | Chris Young SP | KC | Start | Trevor Bauer SP | CLE | Sit |
| LAA@HOU | C.J. Wilson SP | LAA | Start | Collin McHugh SP | HOU | Start |
| MIL@SF | Wily Peralta SP | MIL | Sit | Matt Cain SP | SF | Start |
| NYY@TEX | TBD | TBD | Martin Perez SP | TEX | Sit |
| OAK@LAD | Sonny Gray SP | OAK | Start | Brett Anderson SP | LAD | Sit |
| PHI@TOR | Adam Morgan SP | PHI | Sit | Felix Doubront SP | TOR | Sit |
| PIT@MIN | Charlie Morton SP | PIT | Sit | Mike Pelfrey SP | MIN | Sit |
| SD@NYM | James Shields SP | SD | Start | Noah Syndergaard SP | NYM | Start |
| WAS@MIA | Jordan Zimmermann SP | WAS | Start | Jose Fernandez SP | MIA | Start |
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - WEDNESDAY (7/29/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ARI@SEA | Patrick Corbin SP | ARI | Start | Felix Hernandez SP | SEA | Start |
| ATL@BAL | Manny Banuelos SP | ATL | Sit | Chris Tillman SP | BAL | Start |
| CHW@BOS | Jose Quintana SP | CHW | Start | Rick Porcello SP | BOS | Sit |
| CIN@STL | Anthony DeSclafani SP | CIN | Sit | John Lackey SP | STL | Start |
| COL@CHC | Eddie Butler SP | COL | Sit | Jon Lester SP | CHC | Start |
| DET@TB | Justin Verlander SP | DET | Sit | Chris Archer SP | TB | Start |
| KC@CLE | Jeremy Guthrie SP | KC | Sit | Corey Kluber SP | CLE | Start |
| LAA@HOU | Garrett Richards SP | LAA | Start | Lance McCullers SP | HOU | Start |
| MIL@SF | Mike Fiers SP | MIL | Sit | Jake Peavy SP | SF | Start |
| NYY@TEX | Masahiro Tanaka SP | NYY | Start | Colby Lewis SP | TEX | Sit |
| OAK@LAD | Drew Pomeranz SP | OAK | Sit | Clayton Kershaw SP | LAD | Start |
| PHI@TOR | Jerome Williams RP | PHI | Sit | R.A. Dickey SP | TOR | Start |
| PIT@MIN | Francisco Liriano SP | PIT | Start | Ervin Santana SP | MIN | Start |
| SD@NYM | Tyson Ross SP | SD | Start | Bartolo Colon SP | NYM | Sit |
| WAS@MIA | Doug Fister SP | WAS | Sit | Tom Koehler SP | MIA | Start |
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - THURSDAY (7/30/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ATL@PHI | Shelby Miller SP | ATL | Start | Cole Hamels SP | PHI | Start |
| CHC@MIL | Jake Arrieta SP | CHC | Start | Jimmy Nelson SP | MIL | Sit |
| CHW@BOS | Chris Sale SP | CHW | Start | Steven Wright RP | BOS | Sit |
| CLE@OAK | Carlos Carrasco RP | CLE | Start | Jesse Chavez SP | OAK | Sit |
| COL@STL | Chris Rusin RP | COL | Sit | Carlos Martinez RP | STL | Start |
| DET@BAL | Alfredo Simon SP | DET | Sit | Miguel Gonzalez SP | BAL | Sit |
| KC@TOR | Danny Duffy SP | KC | Sit | Marco Estrada RP | TOR | Sit |
| LAA@HOU | Hector Santiago SP | LAA | Start | Scott Kazmir SP | HOU | Start |
| NYY@TEX | Michael Pineda SP | NYY | Start | Yovani Gallardo SP | TEX | Sit |
| PIT@CIN | Jeff Locke SP | PIT | Sit | TBD | TBD |
| SD@NYM | Andrew Cashner SP | SD | Start | Jonathon Niese SP | NYM | Start |
| SEA@MIN | J.A. Happ SP | SEA | Sit | Phil Hughes SP | MIN | Start |
| WAS@MIA | Max Scherzer SP | WAS | Start | Dan Haren SP | MIA | Start |
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - FRIDAY (7/31/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ARI@HOU | Rubby De La Rosa SP | ARI | Start | Scott Feldman SP | HOU | Sit |
| ATL@PHI | Matt Wisler SP | ATL | Start | Aaron Nola SP | PHI | Start |
| CHC@MIL | Jason Hammel SP | CHC | Start | Taylor Jungmann SP | MIL | Start |
| CLE@OAK | Danny Salazar SP | CLE | Start | Chris Bassitt SP | OAK | Sit |
| COL@STL | Kyle Kendrick SP | COL | Sit | Michael Wacha SP | STL | Start |
| DET@BAL | Shane Greene SP | DET | Sit | Wei-Yin Chen SP | BAL | Start |
| KC@TOR | Yordano Ventura SP | KC | Sit | Drew Hutchison SP | TOR | Sit |
| LAA@LAD | Andrew Heaney SP | LAA | Start | Mike Bolsinger SP | LAD | Sit |
| NYY@CHW | CC Sabathia SP | NYY | Sit | Carlos Rodon SP | CHW | Sit |
| PIT@CIN | A.J. Burnett SP | PIT | Start | Michael Lorenzen SP | CIN | Sit |
| SD@MIA | Ian Kennedy SP | SD | Start | David Phelps SP | MIA | Sit |
| SEA@MIN | Taijuan Walker SP | SEA | Start | Tommy Milone SP | MIN | Sit |
| SF@TEX | Madison Bumgarner SP | SF | Start | Nick Martinez SP | TEX | Sit |
| TB@BOS | Erasmo Ramirez SP | TB | Start | Eduardo Rodriguez SP | BOS | Start |
| WAS@NYM | Gio Gonzalez SP | WAS | Start | Matt Harvey SP | NYM | Start |
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - SATURDAY (8/1/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ARI@HOU | Jeremy Hellickson SP | ARI | Start | Dallas Keuchel SP | HOU | Start |
| ATL@PHI | Alex Wood SP | ATL | Sit | TBD | TBD |
| CHC@MIL | Kyle Hendricks SP | CHC | Start | Matt Garza SP | MIL | Sit |
| CLE@OAK | Cody Anderson SP | CLE | Sit | Kendall Graveman RP | OAK | Sit |
| COL@STL | Jorge De La Rosa SP | COL | Start | Lance Lynn SP | STL | Start |
| DET@BAL | Anibal Sanchez SP | DET | Start | Kevin Gausman SP | BAL | Sit |
| KC@TOR | Edinson Volquez SP | KC | Sit | Mark Buehrle SP | TOR | Start |
| LAA@LAD | Matt Shoemaker SP | LAA | Start | Zack Greinke SP | LAD | Start |
| NYY@CHW | Nathan Eovaldi SP | NYY | Start | John Danks SP | CHW | Sit |
| PIT@CIN | Gerrit Cole SP | PIT | Start | Raisel Iglesias RP | CIN | Sit |
| SD@MIA | Odrisamer Despaigne SP | SD | Sit | Mat Latos SP | MIA | Start |
| SEA@MIN | Mike Montgomery SP | SEA | Sit | Kyle Gibson SP | MIN | Sit |
| SF@TEX | Tim Hudson SP | SF | Sit | Matt Harrison SP | TEX | Sit |
| TB@BOS | Matt Moore SP | TB | Sit | Joe Kelly SP | BOS | Sit |
| WAS@NYM | Joe Ross SP | WAS | Start | Jacob deGrom SP | NYM | Start |
| PROBABLE PITCHERS - SUNDAY (8/2/15) | ||||
| GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
| ARI@HOU | Robbie Ray SP | ARI | Start | Collin McHugh SP | HOU | Start |
| ATL@PHI | Julio Teheran SP | ATL | Start | Adam Morgan SP | PHI | Sit |
| CHC@MIL | TBD | TBD | Kyle Lohse SP | MIL | Sit |
| CLE@OAK | Trevor Bauer SP | CLE | Sit | Sonny Gray SP | OAK | Start |
| COL@STL | TBD | TBD | Jaime Garcia SP | STL | Start |
| DET@BAL | David Price SP | DET | Start | Ubaldo Jimenez SP | BAL | Sit |
| KC@TOR | Chris Young SP | KC | Sit | Felix Doubront SP | TOR | Sit |
| LAA@LAD | C.J. Wilson SP | LAA | Start | Zach Lee SP | LAD | Sit |
| NYY@CHW | Ivan Nova SP | NYY | Sit | Jeff Samardzija SP | CHW | Start |
| PIT@CIN | Charlie Morton SP | PIT | Sit | Mike Leake SP | CIN | Start |
| SD@MIA | James Shields SP | SD | Start | Jose Fernandez SP | MIA | Start |
| SEA@MIN | Hisashi Iwakuma SP | SEA | Start | Mike Pelfrey SP | MIN | Sit |
| SF@TEX | Chris Heston RP | SF | Start | Martin Perez SP | TEX | Sit |
| TB@BOS | Nathan Karns SP | TB | Start | Wade Miley SP | BOS | Start |
| WAS@NYM | Jordan Zimmermann SP | WAS | Start | Noah Syndergaard SP | NYM | Start |
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