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Today's Starting Pitcher Rankings and Starts/Sits (7/11/18)

Daily fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) rankings for today's MLB games (July 11th). Set your optimal DFS and season-long lineups with our pitching ranks.

Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of today's projected starting pitchers (July 11th). Below that, you will also find our start/sit recommendations for each matchup.

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.

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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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - July 11th, 2018

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Chris Sale vs. TEX
2 Jacob deGrom vs. PHI
3 Lance McCullers Jr. vs. OAK
4 Freddy Peralta @ MIA
5 Carlos Carrasco vs. CIN
6 Kenta Maeda @ SD
7 Jordan Zimmermann @ TB
8 Vince Velasquez @ NYM
9 Joey Lucchesi vs. LAD
10 Gio Gonzalez @ PIT
11 Dylan Bundy vs. NYY
12 German Marquez vs. ARI
13 Luke Weaver @ CHW
14 Mike Foltynewicz vs. TOR
15 Johnny Cueto vs. CHC
16 Marco Gonzales @ LAA
17 Lance Lynn vs. KC
18 Mike Montgomery @ SF
19 Jaime Barria vs. SEA
20 Sonny Gray @ BAL
21 Hunter Wood vs. DET
22 Trevor Williams vs. WSH
23 Tyler Mahle @ CLE
24 Sam Gaviglio @ ATL
25 Carlos Rodon vs. STL
26 Burch Smith @ MIN
27 Chris Bassitt @ HOU
28 Shelby Miller @ COL
29 Dan Straily vs. MIL
30 Bartolo Colon @ BOS

 

Start/Sit Recommendations

Today's snapshot is taken from our weekly Start/Sit Matchups column published by Bill Dubiel on Sundays. Here our recommendations on whether to start or sit each pitcher in season-long formats:

PROBABLE PITCHERS (7/11/18) - WEDNESDAY
GAME VISITING STARTER START/SIT HOME STARTER START/SIT
ARI@COL Shelby Miller SP | ARI SIT German Marquez SP | COL SIT
CHC@SF Mike Montgomery RP | CHC SIT Johnny Cueto SP | SF START
CIN@CLE Tyler Mahle SP | CIN START Carlos Carrasco SP | CLE START
DET@TB Jordan Zimmermann SP | DET START Hunter Wood SP | TB SIT
KC@MIN Burch Smith SP | KC SIT Lance Lynn SP | MIN START
LAD@SD Kenta Maeda SP | LAD START Joey Lucchesi SP | SD START
MIL@MIA Freddy Peralta SP | MIL START Dan Straily SP | MIA SIT
NYY@BAL Sonny Gray SP | NYY SIT Dylan Bundy SP | BAL SIT
OAK@HOU Chris Bassitt SP | OAK SIT Lance McCullers SP | HOU START
PHI@NYM Vince Velasquez SP | PHI START Jacob deGrom SP | NYM START
SEA@LAA Marco Gonzales SP | SEA START Jaime Barria SP | LAA SIT
STL@CHW Luke Weaver SP | STL START Carlos Rodon SP | CHW SIT
TEX@BOS Bartolo Colon SP | TEX SIT Chris Sale SP | BOS START
TOR@ATL Sam Gaviglio SP | TOR SIT Mike Foltynewicz SP | ATL START
WAS@PIT Gio Gonzalez SP | WAS START Trevor Williams SP | PIT SIT

 

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