Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of today's projected starting pitchers (July 5th). Below that, you will also find our start/sit recommendations for each matchup.
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. Here we go.
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Fantasy Baseball Starting Pitcher Rankings - July 5th, 2018
Rank | Pitcher | Opponent |
1 | Justin Verlander | vs. CHW |
2 | Johnny Cueto | vs. STL |
3 | Jeremy Hellickson | vs. MIA |
4 | Marco Gonzales | vs. LAA |
5 | Shelby Miller | vs. SD |
6 | Jhoulys Chacin | vs. ATL |
7 | Aaron Slegers | vs. BAL |
8 | Pablo Lopez | @ WSH |
9 | Max Fried | @ MIL |
10 | Yovani Gallardo | @ DET |
11 | Luke Weaver | @ SF |
12 | Matthew Boyd | vs. TEX |
13 | Jaime Barria | @ SEA |
14 | Eric Lauer | @ ARI |
15 | Andrew Cashner | @ MIN |
16 | Carlos Rodon | @ HOU |
Start/Sit Recommendations
Today's snapshot is taken from our weekly Start/Sit Matchups column published by Bill Dubiel on Sundays. Here our recommendations on whether to start or sit each pitcher in season-long formats:
PROBABLE PITCHERS (7/5/18) - THURSDAY | ||||
GAME | VISITING STARTER | START/SIT | HOME STARTER | START/SIT |
ATL@MIL | Max Fried SP | ATL | SIT | Jhoulys Chacin SP | MIL | SIT |
BAL@MIN | David Hess P | BAL | SIT | Aaron Slegers SP | MIN | START |
CHW@HOU | Carlos Rodon SP | CHW | SIT | Justin Verlander SP | HOU | START |
LAA@SEA | Jaime Barria SP | LAA | SIT | Marco Gonzales SP | SEA | SIT |
MIA@WAS | Pablo Lopez SP | MIA | SIT | Jeremy Hellickson SP | WAS | START |
SD@ARI | Eric Lauer SP | SD | SIT | Shelby Miller SP | ARI | SIT |
STL@SF | Luke Weaver SP | STL | SIT | Johnny Cueto SP | SF | START |
TEX@DET | Yovani Gallardo SP | TEX | SIT | Matthew Boyd SP | DET | START |