Below you will find our fantasy baseball and DFS rankings for all of today's projected starting pitchers (August 16th). 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 16th, 2017
Rank | Pitcher | Opponent |
1 | Yu Darvish | vs. CWS |
2 | Jimmy Nelson | vs. PIT |
3 | Carlos Carrasco | @ MIN |
4 | Cole Hamels | vs. DET |
5 | Danny Duffy | @ OAK |
6 | Jacob Faria | @ TOR |
7 | Gerrit Cole | @ MIL |
8 | Marcus Stroman | vs. TB |
9 | Lance Lynn | @ BOS |
10 | Carlos Rodon | @ LA |
11 | Eduardo Rodriguez | vs. STL |
12 | Jon Gray | vs. ATL |
13 | Jaime Garcia | @ NYM |
14 | Taijuan Walker | @ HOU |
15 | Charlie Morton | vs. ARI |
16 | Jose Urena | vs. SF |
17 | Mike Foltynewicz | @ COL |
18 | Anibal Sanchez | @ TEX |
19 | Tanner Roark | vs. ANA |
20 | Nick Pivetta | @ SD |
21 | John Lackey | vs. CIN |
22 | Paul Blackburn | vs. KC |
23 | Marco Gonzales | vs. BAL |
24 | Ubaldo Jimenez | @ SEA |
25 | Robert Gsellman | vs. NYY |
26 | Homer Bailey | @ CHC |
27 | Ricky Nolasco | @ WAS |
28 | Matt Cain | @ MIA |
29 | Clayton Richard | vs. PHI |
30 | Kyle Gibson | vs. CLE |