It’s Opening Day and there are plenty of new features heading to Pitcher List this season. One of the more requested articles last year was a daily ranking of starting pitcher matchups and we’ve listened. Starting today, I’ll personally be ranking starters every morning through the season.
It’s not perfect and will be far from the actual results at the end of the day, though it should give guidance for those questioning who to slot into your lineup on a given day.
| Rank | Pitcher | Matchup |
| 1 | Max Scherzer | vs. NYM |
| 2 | Jacob deGrom | @ WSH |
| 3 | Chris Sale | @ SEA |
| 4 | Justin Verlander | @ TB |
| 5 | Corey Kluber | @ MIN |
| 6 | Aaron Nola | vs. ATL |
| 7 | Blake Snell | vs. HOU |
| 8 | Jameson Taillon | @ CIN |
| 9 | Masahiro Tanaka | vs. BAL |
| 10 | Zack Greinke | @ LAD |
| 11 | Kyle Freeland | @ MIA |
| 12 | Miles Mikolas | @ MIL |
| 13 | Luis Castillo | vs. PIT |
| 14 | Madison Bumgarner | @ SD |
| 15 | Jose Berrios | vs. CLE |
| 16 | Hyun-Jin Ryu | vs. ARI |
| 17 | Jon Lester | @ TEX |
| 18 | Mike Minor | vs. CHC |
| 19 | Jhoulys Chacin | vs. STL |
| 20 | Trevor Cahill | @ OAK |
| 21 | Brad Keller | vs. CHW |
| 22 | Carlos Rodon | @ KC |
| 23 | Mike Fiers | vs. LAA |
| 24 | Marcus Stroman | vs. DET |
| 25 | Jordan Zimmermann | @ TOR |
| 26 | Jose Urena | vs. COL |
| 27 | Eric Lauer | vs. SF |
| 28 | Julio Teheran | @ PHI |
| 29 | Marco Gonzales | vs. BOS |
| 30 | Andrew Cashner | @ NYY |
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Possibly unnecessary duplication of effort on your part. But it might be neat to have a streaming suggestion at the bottom of the article if you’re going to be putting this up every day. I know you have your streamer projection in the daily round-up article already though. Or maybe just a highlight on the list to show your target streamer for the day.
That’s a great point. Maybe I’ll simply highlight the matchups I like as a stream in a different color in the table?
Yea, a simple highlight on the name would be a good start.
I love this idea! Thanks so much!
Thanks Russell!
Nick — awesome stuff! Appreciate all your excellent work. One other suggestion, maybe flying too close to the sun here but what about posting the daily ranking the night before – for leagues that have daily transactions that have to be completed the day before….
Just my $0.02!
I’ll see if I can, I’ll be hard at work writing the SP Roundup then, though.
I’ll see!
This is incredibly useful. Thanks for making this happen!
That shift beater by Gary Sanchez was classic.
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