Welcome to your top 50 pitchers for Week 8! The fantasy baseball landscape is tricky, with injuries beginning to mount and people turning back into pumpkins after excellent starts. What we continue to see, though, is great pitching and lots of it. Playing the right pitchers is a big part of what can win league titles.

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 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 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 look at my top 50 starting pitchers for Week 8.

Top 50 Starting Pitchers for Week 8

1. Kevin Gausman (TOR) (2 starts) vs CHW & MIN
2. Walker Buehler (LAD) (2 starts) vs PIT & NYM
3. Corbin Burnes (MIL) vs SD
4. Gerrit Cole (NYY) vs DET
5. Logan Webb (SF) (2 starts) @PHI & @MIA
6. Justin Verlander (HOU) @OAK
7. Shane McClanahan (TB) vs CHW
8. Joe Musgrove (SD) @MIL
9. Brandon Woodruff (MIL) @CHC
10. Julio Urias (LAD) vs PIT
11. Zack Wheeler (PHI) vs LAA
12. Dylan Cease (CWS) @TB
13. Carlos Rodon (CWS) @PHI
14. Shane Bieber (CLE) vs KC
15. Robbie Ray (SEA) @BAL
16. Framber Valdez (HOU) (2 starts) @OAK & @KC
17. Lucas Giolito (CWS) @TOR
18. Pablo Lopez (MIA) (2 starts) @COL & vs SF
19. Zac Gallen (ARI) (2 starts) vs ATL & @PIT
20. Nestor Cortes (NYY) vs LAA
21. Logan Gilbert (SEA) @TEX
22. Frankie Montas (OAK) vs HOU
23. Patrick Sandoval (LAA) @PHI
24. Charlie Morton (ATL) (2 starts) @ARI & @COL
25. Cal Quantrill (CLE) (2 starts) vs KC & @BAL
26. Kyle Wright (ATL) @ARI
27. Shohei Ohtani (LAA) @NYY
28. Michael Kopech (CWS) (2 starts) @TOR & @TB
29. Max Fried (ATL) @COL
30. Chris Bassitt (NYM) vs WAS
31. Jordan Montgomery (NYY) (2 starts) vs LAA & DET
32. Nick Pivetta (BOS) @OAK
33. Alex Cobb (SF) @MIA
34. Yu Darvish (SD) @STL
35. Tarik Skubal (DET) (2 starts) vs MIN & @NYY
36. George Kirby (SEA) (2 starts) @BAL & @TEX
37. Eric Lauer (MIL) @CHC
38. Nathan Eovaldi (BOS) @OAK
39. MacKenzie Gore (SD) @MIL
40. Cristian Javier (HOU) @OAK
41. Luis Garcia (HOU) @KC
42. Sonny Gray (MIN) @TOR
43. Jose Berrios (TOR) vs MIN
44. Drew Rasmussen (SD) @TEX
45. Adam Wainwright (STL) (2 starts) vs SD & @CHC
46. Paul Blackburn (OAK) (2 starts) vs HOU & BOS
47. Aaron Ashby (MIL) (2 starts) @CHC & vs SD
48. Ranger Suarez (PHI) (2 starts) vs SF & LAA
49. Jakob Junis (KC) (2 starts) @PHI & @MIA
50. Rich Hill (BOS) (2 starts) vs BAL & @OAK

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