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Today and Tomorrow's Starting Pitcher Rankings (5/2, 5/3)

Daily fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for today (May 2nd) and tomorrow (May 3rd). Set your optimal DFS and season-long lineups with our pitching ranks.

Welcome back RotoBallers! Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of the projected starting pitchers for today (Friday, May 2nd) and tomorrow (Saturday, May 3rd).

The concept is pretty straight forward. We round up our daily pitcher rankings, which will hopefully help you make your start/sit and DFS lineup decisions.

In case you missed it, we've been rolling this article series out since 2017. Use this column to set your season-long and DFS lineups for today, and 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 (5/2)

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 James Paxton vs. MIN
2 Tyler Glasnow @ BAL
3 Clayton Kershaw @ SD
4 Chris Sale @ CHW
5 Sonny Gray vs. SF
6 Matthew Boyd vs. KC
7 Joe Musgrove vs. OAK
8 Jack Flaherty @ CHC
9 Steven Matz @ MIL
10 Kyle Hendricks vs. STL
11 Mike Minor vs. TOR
12 Jerad Eickhoff vs. WSH
13 Shane Bieber vs. SEA
14 Brandon Woodruff vs. NYM
15 Reynaldo Lopez vs. BOS
16 Kyle Gibson @ NYY
17 Brett Anderson @ PIT
18 Kevin Gausman @ MIA
19 Eric Lauer vs. LAD
20 Robbie Ray @ COL
21 Jorge Lopez @ DET
22 Trent Thornton @ TEX
23 Tyler Beede @ CIN
24 Jose Urena vs. ATL
25 Yusei Kikuchi @ CLE
26 Jeremy Hellickson @ PHI
27 Tyler Anderson vs. ARI
28 Dan Straily vs. TB

 

Tomorrow's Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Rankings (5/3)

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Carlos Carrasco vs. SEA
2 Mike Soroka @ MIA
3 Rich Hill @ SD
4 Patrick Corbin @ PHI
5 Zack Wheeler @ MIL
6 Chris Bassitt @ PIT
7 J.A. Happ vs. MIN
8 Jake Odorizzi @ NYY
9 Eduardo Rodriguez @ CHW
10 Jake Arrieta vs. WSH
11 Trevor Williams vs. OAK
12 Kyle Freeland vs. ARI
13 Yu Darvish vs. STL
14 Joey Lucchesi vs. LAD
15 Luke Weaver @ COL
16 Michael Wacha @ CHC
17 Wade Miley @ LAA
18 Dereck Rodriguez @ CIN
19 Gio Gonzalez vs. NYM
20 Trevor Richards vs. ATL
21 Tanner Roark vs. SF
22 Homer Bailey @ DET
23 Manny Banuelos vs. BOS
24 Tyson Ross vs. KC
25 Mike Leake @ CLE
26 Trevor Cahill vs. HOU

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