Welcome back RotoBallers! Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of the projected starting pitchers for today (Thursday, May 16th) and tomorrow (Friday, May 17th).
The concept is pretty straight forward. We round up our daily pitcher rankings, which will hopefully help you make your start/sit lineup decisions for both season-long leagues and DFS contests.
In case you missed it, we've been rolling this article series out since 2017. Use this column to set your lineups for today, and to get a better sense of which starters we think will have success. Here we go.
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Today's Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Rankings (5/16)
Rank | Pitcher | Opponent |
1 | Trevor Bauer | vs. BAL |
2 | Zack Wheeler | @ WSH |
3 | Luis Castillo | vs. CHC |
4 | Trevor Williams | @ SD |
5 | Chris Bassitt | @ DET |
6 | Jose Quintana | @ CIN |
7 | Spencer Turnbull | vs. OAK |
8 | Marcus Stroman | @ CHW |
9 | Zach Eflin | vs. MIL |
10 | Zach Davies | @ PHI |
11 | Adam Wainwright | @ ATL |
12 | Julio Teheran | vs. STL |
13 | Anibal Sanchez | vs. NYM |
14 | Lance Lynn | @ KC |
15 | Michael Pineda | @ SEA |
16 | Eric Lauer | vs. PIT |
17 | Homer Bailey | vs. TEX |
18 | Dan Straily | @ CLE |
19 | Dylan Covey | vs. TOR |
20 | Erik Swanson | vs. MIN |
Tomorrow's Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Rankings (5/17)
Rank | Pitcher | Opponent |
1 | Jacob deGrom | @ MIA |
2 | Max Scherzer | vs. CHC |
3 | Cole Hamels | @ WSH |
4 | Rich Hill | @ CIN |
5 | Jordan Lyles | @ SD |
6 | Frankie Montas | @ DET |
7 | Gerrit Cole | @ BOS |
8 | Martin Perez | @ SEA |
9 | Marco Gonzales | vs. MIN |
10 | CC Sabathia | vs. TB |
11 | Aaron Sanchez | @ CHW |
12 | Miles Mikolas | @ TEX |
13 | Jeff Samardzija | @ ARI |
14 | Joey Lucchesi | vs. PIT |
15 | Anthony DeSclafani | vs. LAD |
16 | Jefry Rodriguez | vs. BAL |
17 | Jhoulys Chacin | @ ATL |
18 | Kevin Gausman | vs. MIL |
19 | Daniel Norris | vs. OAK |
20 | Cole Irvin | vs. COL |
21 | Rick Porcello | vs. HOU |
22 | Jon Gray | @ PHI |
23 | Dylan Bundy | @ CLE |
24 | Trevor Richards | vs. NYM |
25 | Ivan Nova | vs. TOR |
26 | Brad Keller | @ LAA |
27 | Merrill Kelly | vs. SF |
28 | Matt Harvey | vs. KC |
29 | Drew Smyly | vs. STL |
30 | TBD | @ NYY |