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Today's Starting Pitcher Rankings and Starts/Sits (7/15/18)

Daily fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) rankings for today's MLB games (July 15th). 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 15th). 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 15th, 2018

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Justin Verlander vs. DET
2 Trevor Bauer vs. NYY
3 Clayton Kershaw vs. LAA
4 Miles Mikolas vs. CIN
5 Jon Lester @ SD
6 Sean Manaea @ SF
7 Andrew Suarez vs. OAK
8 Joe Musgrove vs. MIL
9 Patrick Corbin @ ATL
10 Tyler Anderson vs. SEA
11 Julio Teheran vs. ARI
12 Jeremy Hellickson @ NYM
13 Jhoulys Chacin @ PIT
14 Enyel De Los Santos @ MIA
15 Mike Minor @ BAL
16 Masahiro Tanaka @ CLE
17 Marcus Stroman @ BOS
18 Anthony DeSclafani @ STL
19 Eric Lauer vs. CHC
20 Brian Johnson vs. TOR
21 Jose Urena vs. PHI
22 Ryne Stanek @ MIN
23 Fernando Romero vs. TB
24 Mike Leake @ COL
25 Burch Smith @ CHW
26 Corey Oswalt vs. WSH
27 Francisco Liriano @ HOU
28 Lucas Giolito vs. KC
29 Deck McGuire @ LAD
30 TBA TEX

 

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 (7/15/18) - SUNDAY
GAME VISITING STARTER START/SIT HOME STARTER START/SIT
ARI@ATL Patrick Corbin SP | ARI START Julio Teheran SP | ATL START
CHC@SD Jon Lester SP | CHC START Eric Lauer SP | SD SIT
CIN@STL Anthony DeSclafani SP | CIN SIT Miles Mikolas SP | STL START
DET@HOU Francisco Liriano RP | DET SIT Justin Verlander SP | HOU START
KC@CHW Burch Smith SP | KC SIT Lucas Giolito SP | CHW SIT
LAA@LAD Deck McGuire RP | LAA SIT Clayton Kershaw SP | LAD START
MIL@PIT Jhoulys Chacin SP | MIL START Joe Musgrove SP | PIT SIT
NYY@CLE Masahiro Tanaka SP | NYY SIT Trevor Bauer SP | CLE START
OAK@SF Sean Manaea SP | OAK START Andrew Suarez SP | SF START
PHI@MIA Enyel De Los Santos SP | PHI START Jose Urena SP | MIA SIT
SEA@COL Mike Leake SP | SEA START Tyler Anderson SP | COL START
TB@MIN Ryne Stanek RP | TB SIT Fernando Romero SP | MIN START
TEX@BAL Mike Minor RP | TEX SIT TBA TBD
TOR@BOS Marcus Stroman SP | TOR SIT Brian Johnson SP | BOS SIT
WAS@NYM Jeremy Hellickson SP | WAS START Corey Oswalt P | NYM SIT

 

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