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Week 15 Start/Sit: MLB Starting Pitcher (SP) Matchups

By SD Dirk on Flickr [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Bill Dubiel's Week 15 (2016) fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) matchups - starts, sits, plays and benches. MLB streamers, two start pitchers and sleepers, based on matchups.

What’s up RotoBallers. As always, we are here to help with pitcher matchups every week of the season and help win some leagues. Obviously this week will be just the few days remaining until Week 16--most formats count both weeks together in head-to-head. Below are all of the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 15, including our recommendation on whether to start or sit them for your fantasy baseball teams. Next to each matchup below, we also have a link to our Premium Starting Pitcher Daily Matchups, Streamers & DFS Tool. For those who aren't aware, our in-house tool analyzes SP matchups based on a variety of stats/metrics, and recommends whether start, sit, or stream any pitcher for seasonal and DFS leagues. It's pretty cool.

For every week of the fantasy baseball season, we look to analyze all of the projected starting pitcher matchups and put together our optimal lineups. Here at RotoBaller, we believe that it’s key to analyze every SP matchup, each and every week, to help determine which SPs to start/sit and to hopefully find some hidden gems to bolster your teams.

This weekly piece considers the pitcher’s opponents, their career stats against the opponent, some ballpark factors and historical splits. With all of this information, we then provide our start/sit recommendations for each starting pitcher matchup for the approaching week of fantasy baseball.

 

SP Matchups & Start/Sit Recommendations

Editor's Note: RotoBaller has the best Premium MLB Subscription for only $1.99 per week. We have all the tools to help win your seasonal and daily leagues: Hitter & Pitcher Streamers, Matchup Ratings for every player, Sleeper Surgers for AVG, HR, Ks, PLUS Daily DFS Cheat Sheets, Lineup Picks, Expert Lineups, Stacks and Avoids. 

Note that MLB teams usually shuffle their rotations, so I’ll be updating the matchups throughout the day and week. This is based on 10-14 team league sizes:

 

PROBABLE PITCHERS - FRIDAY (7/15/16)
GAME VISITING STARTER START/SIT HOME STARTER START/SIT
SF@SD Madison Bumgarner SP | SF START Andrew Cashner SP | SD SIT
CLE@MIN Carlos Carrasco SP | CLE START Ervin Santana SP | MIN SIT
TOR@OAK Marcus Stroman SP | TOR START Daniel Mengden SP | OAK SIT
HOU@SEA Doug Fister SP | HOU START James Paxton SP | SEA SIT
KC@DET Ian Kennedy SP | KC START Justin Verlander SP | DET START
NYM@PHI Bartolo Colon SP | NYM START Jeremy Hellickson SP | PHI START
LAD@ARI Bud Norris RP | LAD START Patrick Corbin SP | ARI SIT
PIT@WAS Francisco Liriano SP | PIT SIT Stephen Strasburg SP | WAS START
MIA@STL Wei-Yin Chen SP | MIA START Jaime Garcia SP | STL SIT
BAL@TB Yovani Gallardo SP | BAL SIT Chris Archer SP | TB SIT
TEX@CHC Martin Perez SP | TEX SIT Kyle Hendricks SP | CHC START
BOS@NYY Eduardo Rodriguez SP | BOS SIT Michael Pineda SP | NYY START
COL@ATL Jorge De La Rosa SP | COL START Lucas Harrell SP | ATL SIT
CHW@LAA Miguel Gonzalez SP | CHW START Hector Santiago SP | LAA START
MIL@CIN Matt Garza SP | MIL SIT Anthony DeSclafani SP | CIN START
PROBABLE PITCHERS - SATURDAY (7/16/16)
GAME VISITING STARTER START/SIT HOME STARTER START/SIT
BAL@TB Chris Tillman SP | BAL START Matt Moore SP | TB SIT
SF@SD Jeff Samaradzija SP | SF START Luis Perdomo SP | SD SIT
BOS@NYY Steven Wright SP | BOS START CC Sabathia SP | NYY SIT
CLE@MIN Trevor Bauer SP | CLE START Tyler Duffey SP | MIN SIT
KC@DET Danny Duffy SP | KC START Mike Pelfrey SP | DET SIT
HOU@SEA Lance McCullers SP | HOU START Hisashi Iwakuma SP | SEA START
TOR@OAK TBA TBD Sonny Gray SP | OAK SIT
MIA@STL Tom Koehler SP | MIA START Adam Wainwright SP | STL START
CHW@LAA James Shields SP | CHW START Matt Shoemaker SP | LAA START
LAD@ARI Brandon McCarthy SP | LAD START Archie Bradley SP | LAD START
MIL@CIN Jimmy Nelson SP | MIL START John Lamb SP | CIN SIT
PIT@WAS Gerrit Cole SP | PIT START Tanner Roark SP | WAS START
TEX@CHC Yu Darvish SP | TEX SIT Jason Hammel SP | CHC START
COL@ATL Chad Bettis SP | COL START Mike Foltynewicz SP | ATL SIT
NYM@PHI Logan Verrett RP | NYM SIT Jerad Eickhoff SP | PHI START
PROBABLE PITCHERS - SUNDAY (7/17/16)
GAME VISITING STARTER START/SIT HOME STARTER START/SIT
BOS@NYY David Price SP | BOS START Masahiro Tanaka SP | NYY START
TEX@CHC Cole Hamels SP | TEX START John Lackey SP | CHC SIT
LAD@ARI Kenta Maeda SP | LAD START Robbie Ray SP | ARI START
NYM@PHI Steven Matz SP | NYM START Zach Eflin RP | PHI START
SF@SD Johnny Cueto SP | SF START TBA TBD
CLE@MIN Josh Tomlin SP | CLE START Kyle Gibson SP | MIN SIT
BAL@TB Dylan Bundy SP | BAL SIT Jake Odorizzi SP | TB SIT
HOU@SEA Collin McHugh SP | HOU START TBA TBD
COL@ATL Jon Gray SP | COL START Julio Teheran SP | ATL START
KC@DET Yordano Ventura SP | KC Michael Fulmer SP | DET START
MIL@CIN Zach Davies SP | MIL START Dan Straily SP | CIN SIT
MIA@STL Adam Conley SP | MIA SIT Michael Wacha SP | STL START
CHW@LAA TBA TBD Jered Weaver SP | LAA SIT
PIT@WAS Chad Kuhl SP | PIT SIT Max Scherzer SP | WAS START
TOR@OAK TBA TBD TBA TBD

 

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