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Fantasy Baseball Streaming Pitchers: Carlos Carrasco, Kenta Maeda, Trevor Rogers (Thursday)

Fantasy Baseball Streaming Pitchers: Carlos Carrasco, Kenta Maeda, Trevor Rogers (Thursday)

Streaming pitchers is an incredibly important strategy for fantasy baseball managers, especially those in daily leagues. Even in weekly leagues it’s important to know the upcoming matchups for starting pitchers as you make your start/sit lineup decisions and place waiver wire bids. Below we take a look at the top fantasy baseball streaming pitchers of the day.

You can also check out our full probable pitchers report for the next two weeks. You can use that in coordination with our Streaming Pitcher Planner and Two-Start Pitcher Projections to plan your fantasy baseball rotation.

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Fantasy Baseball Streaming Pitcher Rankings

THURSDAY, APRIL 18TH
VBR PITCHER TEAM THROWS % ROST IP K ERA WHIP OPP. WOBA OPP. SP
123 Kenta Maeda DET R 28% 15 10 6 1.27 TEX 0.3422 A. Heaney
128 Trevor Rogers MIA L 3% 15 14 4.8 1.87 @CHC 0.3284 S. Imanaga
129 Griffin Canning LAA R 11% 13.2 12 9.88 1.83 @TB 0.3384 R. Pepiot
174 Andrew Heaney TEX L 9% 12 10 6.75 1.58 @DET 0.3026 K. Maeda
263 Ryne Nelson ARI R 2% 13.2 13 5.27 1.61 @SF 0.3069 L. Webb
619 Cooper Criswell BOS R 0% 4 4 4.5 1.5 CLE 0.3034 C. Carrasco
658 Carlos Carrasco CLE R 1% 12.2 11 3.55 1.66 @BOS 0.3265 C. Criswell

What are pitching streamers?
Streaming pitchers is a strategy where fantasy owners target short-term rentals on the waiver wire that will provide the a boost in production for a given week. By targeting matchups and pitchers who have more than one start in a week, fantasy owners can improve their weekly or daily output from the starting pitcher position.


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