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Today's Starting Pitcher Rankings and Starts/Sits (7/22/18)

Daily fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) rankings for today's MLB games (July 22nd). 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 22nd). 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 Pitcher Rankings - July 22nd, 2018

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Chris Sale @ DET
2 Max Scherzer vs. ATL
3 Jacob deGrom @ NYY
4 Zack Greinke vs. COL
5 Nick Pivetta vs. SD
6 Lance McCullers Jr. @ LAA
7 Alex Wood @ MIL
8 Vince Velasquez vs. SD
9 J.A. Happ vs. BAL
10 Miles Mikolas @ CHC
11 Chris Archer vs. MIA
12 Mike Clevinger @ TEX
13 Masahiro Tanaka vs. NYM
14 Marco Gonzales vs. CHW
15 Mike Foltynewicz @ WSH
16 Johnny Cueto @ OAK
17 Tyson Ross @ PHI
18 Jose Quintana vs. STL
19 Sean Manaea vs. SF
20 Matt Harvey vs. PIT
21 Andrew Heaney vs. HOU
22 Ivan Nova @ CIN
23 Reynaldo Lopez @ SEA
24 Antonio Senzatela @ ARI
25 Brent Suter vs. LAD
26 Brad Keller vs. MIN
27 Trevor Richards @ TB
28 Blaine Hardy vs. BOS
29 Jake Odorizzi @ KC
30 Luis Perdomo @ PHI
31 Andrew Cashner @ TOR
32 Yovani Gallardo vs. CLE

 

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 (7/22/18)
GAME VISITING STARTER START/SIT HOME STARTER START/SIT
ATL@WAS Mike Foltynewicz SP | ATL START Max Scherzer SP | WAS START
BAL@TOR Andrew Cashner SP | BAL SIT J.A. Happ SP | TOR START
BOS@DET Chris Sale SP | BOS START Blaine Hardy SP | DET SIT
CHW@SEA Reynaldo Lopez SP | CHW SIT Marco Gonzales SP | SEA START
CLE@TEX Mike Clevinger SP | CLE START Yovani Gallardo SP | TEX SIT
COL@ARI Antionio Senzatela SP | COL SIT Zack Greinke SP | ARI START
HOU@LAA Lance McCullers SP | HOU START Andrew Heaney SP | LAA START
LAD@MIL Alex Wood SP | LAD START Brent Suter SP | MIL SIT
MIA@TB Trevor Richards SP | MIA SIT Chris Archer SP | TB START
MIN@KC Jake Odorizzi SP | MIN START Brad Keller SP | KC SIT
NYM@NYY Jacob deGrom SP | NYM START Masahiro Tanaka SP | NYY START
PIT@CIN Ivan Nova SP | PIT SIT Matt Harvey SP | CIN START
SD@PHI Tyson Ross SP | SD START Nick Pivetta SP | PHI START
SF@OAK Johnny Cueto SP | SF START Sean Manaea SP | OAK START
STL@CHC Miles Mikolas SP | STL START Jose Quintana SP | CHC START

 

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