The List 9/18 – Ranking Every Starting Pitcher’s ROS Daily Matchups

Every day of the 2022 baseball season, I’ve been looking at today and tomorrow’s slate of scheduled starting pitchers and ranking their matchups for your fantasy baseball streams.

With just under two weeks left of the season, I decided the most helpful thing I could do is expand my daily rankings to look at each remaining day of the season in one massive reference article.

There’s a lot that goes into this and you can hang out with me on Playback.tv/pitcherlist to talk about the specific ranks as I make them every weekday morning from 10am – 12pm ET. If you have questions about these ranks, please ask during the morning Playback AMA. Those are my office hours as I generally don’t answer comments on the site.

 

HUGE thanks to Scott Youngson for helping put together this week’s tables.

 

My Ranking Process Outlined

 

There are four tiers to these rankings with 12-teamers in mind:

Auto-Start – Just do it. Don’t overthink this, start the man. This includes “if I have them rostered, I’m starting them” pitchers.

Probably Start – I’m likely starting these arms, though I recognize there is more risk than we’d like there to be. Either it’s a tough matchup for a good-not-elite pitcher or a weak lineup for a volatile arm. These pitchers have a 50% or greater chance of performing well in my view.

Questionable Start – Think of this tier as “I don’t want to start these pitchers in a vacuum, but you could do worse.” Streamers found in this tier are not pitchers I’m targeting or are sneaky options for deeper leagues. To play it safe with streaming, just start the Probably Start streamers.

Do Not Start – The reward is not worth the risk. Don’t do it. Seriously, these pitchers have a very slim chance of success or sometimes none at all.

Obviously, there will be circumstances where pitchers should move between teams for your situation specifically and these new tiers should act as a little more help than the straight table from last year.

 

These schedules are going to change. 

 

It’s the biggest concern I have investing the time into a massive article like this as we all know rotations change, injuries happen, starters are pushed back, and rainouts are a thing. It means to take these with a grain of salt, but I believe it’s best to have a plan and adapt rather than starting with no plan at all.

Also keep in mind that my feelings toward some of these starters will be altered by their progression through the rest of the year – for example, take Max Fried dealing with a “hot spot” on his finger that has me worried Atlanta will baby him down the stretch, or the possibility of Shane Bieber looking solid when he returns to the majors. The rankings are fluid through the end of the year and I can only make my best estimate now. Make sure to check out my daily rankings for more help in the final weeks.

 

As I do my rankings, I thought it would be helpful to showcase a table of how we’re ranking offenses:

 

On top of the daily streaming rankings, I’m going to start by showing all the schedules of every team that I used to make the daily streams. No images this week, you can quickly look them up and move on instead of day-by-day.

 

 

H’ok. Buckle in, the rest of this article is 13 tables for each remaining day of the year (Monday 9/18 not included as games have already started). I don’t have notes for each one as I simply ran out of time. However, my SP Roundup blurbs should cover all my thoughts about each of those guys, and you can find those under the Game Log section of every player’s profile page. Just click on the row to see the expanded details with what I wrote about them.

I’ve also elected to highlight potential streamers in Green and Yellow colors to outline who my favorite targets are down the stretch. Green = Absolutely, Yellow = if you’re in need of something.

GOOD LUCK! Take into account that the last weekend of the season changes MASSIVELY, often with few aces actually pitching or getting more limited than usual. Don’t target pitchers in the final weekend, target the starts beforehand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good luck. You can do this.