What’s up RotoBallers. As always, we are here to help with pitcher matchups every week of the season and help win some leagues. Obviously this week will be just the few days remaining until Week 16--most formats count both weeks together in head-to-head. Below are all of the projected starting pitching matchups for Week 15, including our recommendation on whether to start or sit them for your fantasy baseball teams. Next to each matchup below, we also have a link to our Premium Starting Pitcher Daily Matchups, Streamers & DFS Tool. For those who aren't aware, our in-house tool analyzes SP matchups based on a variety of stats/metrics, and recommends whether start, sit, or stream any pitcher for seasonal and DFS leagues. It's pretty cool.
For every week of the fantasy baseball season, we look to analyze all of the projected starting pitcher matchups and put together our optimal lineups. Here at RotoBaller, we believe that it’s key to analyze every SP matchup, each and every week, to help determine which SPs to start/sit and to hopefully find some hidden gems to bolster your teams.
This weekly piece considers the pitcher’s opponents, their career stats against the opponent, some ballpark factors and historical splits. With all of this information, we then provide our start/sit recommendations for each starting pitcher matchup for the approaching week of fantasy baseball.
SP Matchups & Start/Sit Recommendations
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Note that MLB teams usually shuffle their rotations, so I’ll be updating the matchups throughout the day and week. This is based on 10-14 team league sizes:
PROBABLE PITCHERS - FRIDAY (7/15/16) | ||||
GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
SF@SD | Madison Bumgarner SP | SF | START | Andrew Cashner SP | SD | SIT |
CLE@MIN | Carlos Carrasco SP | CLE | START | Ervin Santana SP | MIN | SIT |
TOR@OAK | Marcus Stroman SP | TOR | START | Daniel Mengden SP | OAK | SIT |
HOU@SEA | Doug Fister SP | HOU | START | James Paxton SP | SEA | SIT |
KC@DET | Ian Kennedy SP | KC | START | Justin Verlander SP | DET | START |
NYM@PHI | Bartolo Colon SP | NYM | START | Jeremy Hellickson SP | PHI | START |
LAD@ARI | Bud Norris RP | LAD | START | Patrick Corbin SP | ARI | SIT |
PIT@WAS | Francisco Liriano SP | PIT | SIT | Stephen Strasburg SP | WAS | START |
MIA@STL | Wei-Yin Chen SP | MIA | START | Jaime Garcia SP | STL | SIT |
BAL@TB | Yovani Gallardo SP | BAL | SIT | Chris Archer SP | TB | SIT |
TEX@CHC | Martin Perez SP | TEX | SIT | Kyle Hendricks SP | CHC | START |
BOS@NYY | Eduardo Rodriguez SP | BOS | SIT | Michael Pineda SP | NYY | START |
COL@ATL | Jorge De La Rosa SP | COL | START | Lucas Harrell SP | ATL | SIT |
CHW@LAA | Miguel Gonzalez SP | CHW | START | Hector Santiago SP | LAA | START |
MIL@CIN | Matt Garza SP | MIL | SIT | Anthony DeSclafani SP | CIN | START |
PROBABLE PITCHERS - SATURDAY (7/16/16) | ||||
GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
BAL@TB | Chris Tillman SP | BAL | START | Matt Moore SP | TB | SIT |
SF@SD | Jeff Samaradzija SP | SF | START | Luis Perdomo SP | SD | SIT |
BOS@NYY | Steven Wright SP | BOS | START | CC Sabathia SP | NYY | SIT |
CLE@MIN | Trevor Bauer SP | CLE | START | Tyler Duffey SP | MIN | SIT |
KC@DET | Danny Duffy SP | KC | START | Mike Pelfrey SP | DET | SIT |
HOU@SEA | Lance McCullers SP | HOU | START | Hisashi Iwakuma SP | SEA | START |
TOR@OAK | TBA | TBD | Sonny Gray SP | OAK | SIT |
MIA@STL | Tom Koehler SP | MIA | START | Adam Wainwright SP | STL | START |
CHW@LAA | James Shields SP | CHW | START | Matt Shoemaker SP | LAA | START |
LAD@ARI | Brandon McCarthy SP | LAD | START | Archie Bradley SP | LAD | START |
MIL@CIN | Jimmy Nelson SP | MIL | START | John Lamb SP | CIN | SIT |
PIT@WAS | Gerrit Cole SP | PIT | START | Tanner Roark SP | WAS | START |
TEX@CHC | Yu Darvish SP | TEX | SIT | Jason Hammel SP | CHC | START |
COL@ATL | Chad Bettis SP | COL | START | Mike Foltynewicz SP | ATL | SIT |
NYM@PHI | Logan Verrett RP | NYM | SIT | Jerad Eickhoff SP | PHI | START |
PROBABLE PITCHERS - SUNDAY (7/17/16) | ||||
GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
BOS@NYY | David Price SP | BOS | START | Masahiro Tanaka SP | NYY | START |
TEX@CHC | Cole Hamels SP | TEX | START | John Lackey SP | CHC | SIT |
LAD@ARI | Kenta Maeda SP | LAD | START | Robbie Ray SP | ARI | START |
NYM@PHI | Steven Matz SP | NYM | START | Zach Eflin RP | PHI | START |
SF@SD | Johnny Cueto SP | SF | START | TBA | TBD |
CLE@MIN | Josh Tomlin SP | CLE | START | Kyle Gibson SP | MIN | SIT |
BAL@TB | Dylan Bundy SP | BAL | SIT | Jake Odorizzi SP | TB | SIT |
HOU@SEA | Collin McHugh SP | HOU | START | TBA | TBD |
COL@ATL | Jon Gray SP | COL | START | Julio Teheran SP | ATL | START |
KC@DET | Yordano Ventura SP | KC | Michael Fulmer SP | DET | START | |
MIL@CIN | Zach Davies SP | MIL | START | Dan Straily SP | CIN | SIT |
MIA@STL | Adam Conley SP | MIA | SIT | Michael Wacha SP | STL | START |
CHW@LAA | TBA | TBD | Jered Weaver SP | LAA | SIT |
PIT@WAS | Chad Kuhl SP | PIT | SIT | Max Scherzer SP | WAS | START |
TOR@OAK | TBA | TBD | TBA | TBD |
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