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Daily fantasy baseball starting pitcher (SP) rankings for today's MLB games (August 20th). Set your optimal DFS and season-long lineups with our pitching ranks.
Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of today's projected starting pitchers (August 20th). We have been publishing this column for a few weeks now, and so far the feedback has been pretty good. Let us know what you think on Twitter too.
The concept is pretty straight forward. We round up our daily pitcher rankings, which will hopefully help you make your start/sit and DFS lineup decisions.
Use this column to set your season-long and DFS lineups for today, and get a better sense of which starters we think will have success. If readers like it, we'll keep doing it. And if readers really like it, we'll do it for hitters too. Here we go.
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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - August 20th, 2017

Rank | Pitcher | Opponent |
1 | Madison Bumgarner | vs. PHI |
2 | Jacob deGrom | vs. MIA |
3 | Danny Salazar | @ KC |
4 | Gio Gonzalez | @ SD |
5 | Sonny Gray | @ BOS |
6 | Brad Peacock | vs. OAK |
7 | Kenta Maeda | @ DET |
8 | Justin Verlander | vs. LA |
9 | Kyle Hendricks | vs. TOR |
10 | Adam Conley | @ NYM |
11 | Luis Castillo | @ ATL |
12 | Ivan Nova | vs. STL |
13 | Rick Porcello | vs. NYY |
14 | Dinelson Lamet | vs. WAS |
15 | Chase Anderson | @ COL |
16 | Parker Bridwell | @ BAL |
17 | Marco Estrada | @ CHC |
18 | Blake Snell | vs. SEA |
19 | Jason Hammel | vs. CLE |
20 | Sean Newcomb | vs. CIN |
21 | Miguel Gonzalez | @ TEX |
22 | Bartolo Colon | vs. ARI |
23 | Jharel Cotton | @ HOU |
24 | Kyle Freeland | vs. MIL |
25 | Mike Leake | @ PIT |
26 | T.J. McFarland | @ MIN |
27 | A.J. Griffin | vs. CWS |
28 | Ben Lively | @ SF |
29 | Chris Tillman | vs. ANA |
30 | Yovani Gallardo | @ TB |