Every Saturday, I’ll be providing you all with my fantasy rankings for the upcoming fantasy baseball week. These are not simply my rest of the season rankings minus injuries, but rather based around a number of factors. Opponents, ballparks, anticipated spot in the lineup, splits and even potential postponements are all accounted for. Perhaps most importantly, however, are which players will be benefiting/suffering from time in Coors, and which pitchers are scheduled to start two games. I’ll tell you about both of them today then give you my rankings for Week 3. If you don’t already, you can follow me on twitter @bobbyfantasypro. I try to get to as many questions as possible (it helps if they are short and to the point), plus I post my start/sit chart for pitchers every weekday morning.
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Coors Field Watch
With the Humidor coming into play for Chase Field, there really is no second tier this season. Last year, it was Coors in Tier 1 for offense, Chase in Tier 2, then a handful of hitter-friendly environments like the ballparks for the Yankees, Braves, Rangers, Orioles and Reds. While offensive players spending time in those parks this week will get a slight bump, assuming they have reasonable pitching matchups, the only real significant movement will be players who take at-bats in Coors. This week there is one series, with Colorado hosting the Padres for three games. They also welcome the Giants to San Diego, so this is offset a little.
Two-Start Risers
There are 40 pitchers expected to start two games this week, but 18 of them have little, if any, fantasy relevance. You may be able to squeeze a spot start out of Carson Fulmer versus the Rays or Ivan Nova at Miami, but both come with enough risk that it wouldn’t be wise to advise such a thing. Ten others, with Johnny Cueto and Alex Wood being the cut-off point, are owned everywhere and should be started regardless of matchup each and every week. That leaves us with 12 two-start pitchers who will see a significant increase in fantasy value over the next week and should be scooped up assuming they are not already owned.
- Dylan Bundy (vs TOR, @ BOS)
- Tyler Skaggs (@ TEX, @ KC)
- Blake Snell (@ CHW, vs PHI)
- Jake Junis (vs SEA, vs LAA)
- Garrett Richards (@ TEX, @ KC)
- Mike Foltynewicz (@ WAS, @ CHC)
- Felix Hernandez (@ KC, vs OAK)
- Miles Mikolas (vs MIL, @ CIN)
- Jake Odorizzi (vs HOU, vs CWS)
- J.A. Happ (@ BAL, @ CLE)
- Jon Gray (vs SD, @ WAS)
Of this group, you’ll notice that both Junis and King Felix have a pair of excellent matchups. Foltynewicz and Skaggs are two of the top waiver wire adds of the week whether they had two starts against crummy offenses or not.
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