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Today and Tomorrow's Starting Pitcher Rankings (5/4, 5/5)

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 (Saturday, May 4th) and tomorrow (Sunday, May 5th).

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 (5/4)

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 Eduardo Rodriguez @ CHW
9 Jake Arrieta vs. WSH
10 Trevor Williams vs. OAK
11 Kyle Freeland vs. ARI
12 Yu Darvish vs. STL
13 Jake Odorizzi @ NYY
14 Michael Wacha @ CHC
15 Luke Weaver @ COL
16 Dereck Rodriguez @ CIN
17 Lance Lynn vs. TOR
18 Joey Lucchesi vs. LAD
19 Wade Miley @ LAA
20 Gio Gonzalez vs. NYM
21 Trevor Richards vs. ATL
22 Tanner Roark vs. SF
23 Homer Bailey @ DET
24 Manny Banuelos vs. BOS
25 Tyson Ross vs. KC
26 Mike Leake @ CLE
27 Dylan Bundy vs. TB
28 Trevor Cahill vs. HOU
29 Ryne Stanek @ BAL
30 Thomas Pannone @TEX

 

 

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

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Luis Castillo vs. SF
2 Justin Verlander @ LAA
3 Domingo German vs. MIN
4 German Marquez vs. ARI
5 Jose Quintana vs. STL
6 Zack Greinke @ COL
7 Spencer Turnbull vs. KC
8 Kenta Maeda @ SD
9 Zach Eflin vs. WSH
10 Jordan Lyles vs. OAK
11 Jeff Samardzija @ CIN
12 Frankie Montas @ PIT
13 Zach Davies vs. NYM
14 Adam Wainwright @ CHC
15 Nick Margevicius vs. LAD
16 Rick Porcello @ CHW
17 Pablo Lopez vs. ATL
18 Brad Keller @ DET
19 Cody Anderson vs. SEA
20 Anibal Sanchez @ PHI
21 Clay Buchholz @ TEX
22 Julio Teheran @ MIA
23 Dylan Covey vs. BOS
24 Michael Pineda @ NYY
25 Matt Harvey vs. HOU
26 Jason Vargas @ MIL
27 Erik Swanson @ CLE
28 Drew Smyly vs. TOR

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