As we head into the third week of the baseball season, things are beginning to take shape in the pitching landscape. We’re seeing velocity changes, mechanical fixes, pitch mix arsenal adjustments, and everything in between. Pitching is an extremely volatile position and consistently changing, but it’s important to stay on top of current information in order to best evaluate pitchers each and every week. If you’re able to identify when a pitcher is breaking out or when one has skills diminishing, you can be the first to acquire or trade away these players before the market adjusts.
One of the best ways to make sure to do this is to look at a pitcher’s matchups for the following week. You can find out who has weaker matchups to potentially stream, bench certain pitchers with difficult matchups, & take advantage of two-start pitchers for that week.
I’m here to try and help you figure out those tough pitcher decisions for your daily or weekly lineups by ranking my top 50 pitchers ahead of each week this season. This will not be a pitcher’s ranking for the season, but rather how I rank them for that particular week. A pitcher with two starts or who faces a team with a horrible offense will usually get a bump, compared to pitchers with bad matchups.
The projected matchups and two-start starting pitchers are all from the MLB Probable Pitchers tool right here on FantasyPros. Make sure to look for this article every weekend and make the necessary adjustments throughout the week with IL stints, postponements, and everything in between. Remember, the most active manager is usually the one who gets the best free agents and greatly increases their chances to win their league!
Let’s take a look at my top Top 50 Starting Pitchers for this upcoming week.
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Top 50 Starting Pitchers for Week 3
- Corbin Burnes (SP – MIL) (2 starts) @PIT & CHC
- Carlos Rodon (SP – SF) (2 starts) @MIL & WAS
- Joe Musgrove (SP – SD) (2 starts) @CIN & @PIT
- Sandy Alcantara (SP – MIA) (2 starts) @WAS & SEA
- Kevin Gausman (SP – TOR) (2 starts) vs BOS & HOU
- Walker Buehler (SP – LAD) (2 starts) @ARI & DET
- Max Fried (SP – ATL) (2 starts) vs CHC & @TEX
- Shane Bieber (SP – CLE) (2 starts) @LAA & @OAK
- Max Scherzer (SP – NYM) @STL
- Brandon Woodruff (SP – MIL) vs CHI
- Sean Manaea (SP – SD) (2 starts) @PIT
- Gerrit Cole (SP – NYY) vs CLE
- Julio Urias (SP – LAD) @ARI
- Shohei Ohtani (SP,DH – LAA) vs CLE
- Dylan Cease (SP – CWS) vs KC
- Logan Gilbert (SP – SEA) (2 starts) @TB & @MIA
- Zack Wheeler (SP – PHI) vs COL
- Justin Verlander (SP – HOU) @TEX
- Robbie Ray (SP – SEA) @MIA
- Logan Webb (SP – SF) vs WAS
- Freddy Peralta (SP – MIL) @PIT
- Tylor Megill (SP – NYM) vs PHI
- Jose Berrios (SP – TOR) (2 starts) vs BOS & HOU
- Shane McClanahan (SP – TB) vs MIN
- Yu Darvish (SP – SD) vs PIT
- Joe Ryan (SP – MIN) vs DET
- Eduardo Rodriguez (SP – DET) (2 starts) @ MIN & @LAD
- Clayton Kershaw (SP – LAD) vs DET
- Chris Bassitt (SP – NYM) @STL
- Alek Manoah (SP – TOR) vs BOS
- Luis Severino (SP,RP – NYY) (2 starts) vs BAL & @KC
- Framber Valdez (SP – HOU) (2 starts) @TEX & @TOR
- Adam Wainwright (SP – STL) vs ARI
- Trevor Rogers (SP – MIA) vs WAS
- Lucas Giolito (SP – CWS) (2 starts) vs LAA
- Frankie Montas (SP – OAK) vs CLE
- Aaron Nola (SP – PHI) @NYM
- Ian Anderson (SP – ATL) @TEX
- Merrill Kelly (SP – ARI) (2 starts) vs LAD & @STL
- Nathan Eovaldi (SP – BOS) @BAL
- Charlie Morton (SP – ATL) vs CHC
- Nestor Cortes (SP – NYY) @KC
- Patrick Sandoval (SP – LAA) vs CLE
- Pablo Lopez (SP – MIA) @WAS
- Miles Mikolas (SP – STL) (2 starts) vs NYM & ARI
- Jesus Luzardo (SP,RP – MIA) vs SEA
- Tyler Mahle (SP – CIN) @COL
- Kyle Gibson (SP – PHI) (2 starts) vs COL & @NYM
- Josiah Gray (SP – WSH) (2 starts) @SF
- Kyle Wright (SP – ATL) vs CHC
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