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Today and Tomorrow's Starting Pitcher Rankings (4/30, 5/1)

Daily fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings for today (April 30th) and tomorrow (May 1st). 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 (Tuesday, April 30th) and tomorrow (Wednesday, May 1st).

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 (4/30)

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Trevor Bauer @ MIA
2 Blake Snell @ KC
3 Gerrit Cole @ MIN
4 Luis Castillo @ NYM
5 Walker Buehler @ SF
6 Chris Paddack @ ATL
7 German Marquez @ MIL
8 Vince Velasquez vs. DET
9 Cole Hamels @ SEA
10 Adam Wainwright @ WSH
11 Spencer Turnbull @ PHI
12 CC Sabathia @ ARI
13 Anibal Sanchez vs. STL
14 Clay Buchholz @ LAA
15 Drew Pomeranz vs. LAD
16 Rick Porcello vs. OAK
17 Merrill Kelly vs. NYY
18 Jordan Lyles @ TEX
19 Julio Teheran vs. SD
20 Griffin Canning vs. TOR
21 Jhoulys Chacin vs. COL
22 Ivan Nova vs. BAL
23 Michael Pineda vs. HOU
24 Jason Vargas vs. CIN
25 Felix Hernandez vs. CHC
26 Jake Junis vs. TB
27 Sandy Alcantara vs. CLE
28 Aaron Brooks @ BOS
29 Andrew Cashner @ CHW
30 Adrian Sampson vs. PIT

 

 

Tomorrow's Fantasy Baseball Pitcher Rankings (5/1)

Rank Pitcher Opponent
1 Max Scherzer vs. STL
2 Aaron Nola vs. DET
3 Corey Kluber @ MIA
4 Hyun-Jin Ryu @ SF
6 Caleb Smith vs. CLE
5 Jacob deGrom vs. CIN
7 Marcus Stroman @ LAA
9 Max Fried vs. SD
8 Collin McHugh @ MIN
11 Masahiro Tanaka @ ARI
12 Madison Bumgarner vs. LAD
13 Carlos Rodon vs. BAL
14 Marco Gonzales vs. CHC
10 Jameson Taillon @ TEX
16 Jon Lester @ SEA
17 Matt Strahm @ ATL
15 Miles Mikolas @ WSH
18 Anthony DeSclafani @ NYM
19 Spencer Turnbull @ PHI
20 Chase Anderson vs. COL
21 Felix Pena vs. TOR
22 Antonio Senzatela @ MIL
23 Hector Velazquez vs. OAK
24 Merrill Kelly vs. NYY
25 Mike Fiers @ BOS
26 David Hess @ CHW
27 Martin Perez vs. HOU
28 Shelby Miller vs. PIT

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