As we head into the fourth 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 a highly volatile position and consistently changing, but it’s important to stay on top of current information to best evaluate pitchers every week. If you can 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, and 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. For example, 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 on FantasyPros. Make sure to look for this article every weekend and make the necessary adjustments throughout the week with injury list (IL) stints, postponements, and everything in between. Remember, the most active manager is usually the one who gets the best free agents and dramatically increases their chances to win their league!

Let’s take a look at my top 50 starting pitchers for this upcoming week.

Top 50 Starting Pitchers for Week 4

1. Brandon Woodruff (2 starts) vs. CIN & @ATL
2. Alek Manoah (2 starts) vs NYY & @CLE
3. Joe Ryan (2 starts) @BAL & vs. OAK
4. Dylan Cease (2 starts) vs LAA & @BOS
5. Chris Bassitt (2 starts) vs ATL & @PHI
6. Pablo Lopez (2 starts) vs. ARI & @SD
7. Corbin Burnes @ATL
8. Gerrit Cole vs. TEX
9. Walker Buehler @CHC
10. Max Scherzer vs. PHI
11. Freddy Peralta vs. CIN
12. Carlos Rodon @LAD
13. Patrick Sandoval (2 starts) @CHW & vs. WAS
14. Sandy Alcantara @SD
15. Logan Webb vs. STL
16. Trevor Rogers (2 starts) vs. ARI & @SD
17. Joe Musgrove vs. MIA
18. Shane Bieber vs. TOR
19. MacKenzie Gore (2 starts) @CLE & vs. MIA
20. Sean Manaea vs. MIA
21. Lucas Giolito @CHC
22. Zack Wheeler vs. TEX
23. Kevin Gausman @CLE
24. Justin Verlander vs. SEA
25. Max Fried vs. MIL
26. Charlie Morton (2 starts) @NYM & vs MIL
27. Julio Urias vs. SF
28. Shane McClanahan @SEA
29. Logan Gilbert vs. TB
30. Zac Gallen (2 starts) vs. MIA & vs. COL
31. Clayton Kershaw @CHC
32. Robbie Ray vs. TB
33. Aaron Nola vs. NYM
34. Frankie Montas @MIN
35. Carlos Carrasco (2 starts) vs ATL & @PHI
36. Yu Darvish @MIA
37. Ranger Suarez (2 starts) vs. TEX & vs. NYM
38. Jose Berrios @CLE
39. Bruce Zimmerman (2 starts) vs. MIN & vs. KC
40. Jordan Montgomery (2 starts) @TOR & vs. TEX
41. Shohei Ohtani @BOS
42. Tylor Megill @ATL
43. Kyle Wright @NYM
44. Nathan Eovaldi @CHW
45. Zack Greinke (2 starts) vs STL & vs BAL
46. Luis Garcia @DET
47. Michael Pineda (2 starts) vs. PIT & vs. HOU
48. Jesus Luzardo @SD
49. Michael Kopech @CHC
50. Marco Gonzales (2 starts) vs HOU & vs TB

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