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.

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.