Welcome to your top 50 pitchers for Week 8! The fantasy baseball landscape is tricky, with injuries beginning to mount and people turning back into pumpkins after excellent starts. What we continue to see, though, is great pitching and lots of it. Playing the right pitchers is a big part of what can win league titles.
One of the best ways to make sure to do this is to look at a pitcher’s matchups for the following week. You can find who has weaker matchups to potentially stream, bench certain pitchers with difficult matchups, and take advantage of two-start pitchers for that week.
I’m here to try and help you figure out those tough pitcher decisions for your daily or weekly lineups by ranking my top 50 pitchers ahead of each week this season. This will not be a pitcher’s ranking for the season but rather how I rank them for that particular week. For example, a pitcher with two starts or who faces a team with a horrible offense will usually get a bump compared to pitchers with bad matchups.
The projected matchups and two-start starting pitchers are from the MLB Probable Pitchers tool on FantasyPros. Make sure to look for this article every weekend and make the necessary adjustments throughout the week with injury list (IL) stints, postponements, and everything in between. Remember, the most active manager is usually the one who gets the best free agents and dramatically increases their chances to win their league!
Let’s look at my top 50 starting pitchers for Week 8.
Top 50 Starting Pitchers for Week 8
- Kevin Gausman (TOR) (2 starts) vs CHW & MIN
- Walker Buehler (LAD) (2 starts) vs PIT & NYM
- Corbin Burnes (MIL) vs SD
- Gerrit Cole (NYY) vs DET
- Logan Webb (SF) (2 starts) @PHI & @MIA
- Justin Verlander (HOU) @OAK
- Shane McClanahan (TB) vs CHW
- Joe Musgrove (SD) @MIL
- Brandon Woodruff (MIL) @CHC
- Julio Urias (LAD) vs PIT
- Zack Wheeler (PHI) vs LAA
- Dylan Cease (CWS) @TB
- Carlos Rodon (CWS) @PHI
- Shane Bieber (CLE) vs KC
- Robbie Ray (SEA) @BAL
- Framber Valdez (HOU) (2 starts) @OAK & @KC
- Lucas Giolito (CWS) @TOR
- Pablo Lopez (MIA) (2 starts) @COL & vs SF
- Zac Gallen (ARI) (2 starts) vs ATL & @PIT
- Nestor Cortes (NYY) vs LAA
- Logan Gilbert (SEA) @TEX
- Frankie Montas (OAK) vs HOU
- Patrick Sandoval (LAA) @PHI
- Charlie Morton (ATL) (2 starts) @ARI & @COL
- Cal Quantrill (CLE) (2 starts) vs KC & @BAL
- Kyle Wright (ATL) @ARI
- Shohei Ohtani (LAA) @NYY
- Michael Kopech (CWS) (2 starts) @TOR & @TB
- Max Fried (ATL) @COL
- Chris Bassitt (NYM) vs WAS
- Jordan Montgomery (NYY) (2 starts) vs LAA & DET
- Nick Pivetta (BOS) @OAK
- Alex Cobb (SF) @MIA
- Yu Darvish (SD) @STL
- Tarik Skubal (DET) (2 starts) vs MIN & @NYY
- George Kirby (SEA) (2 starts) @BAL & @TEX
- Eric Lauer (MIL) @CHC
- Nathan Eovaldi (BOS) @OAK
- MacKenzie Gore (SD) @MIL
- Cristian Javier (HOU) @OAK
- Luis Garcia (HOU) @KC
- Sonny Gray (MIN) @TOR
- Jose Berrios (TOR) vs MIN
- Drew Rasmussen (SD) @TEX
- Adam Wainwright (STL) (2 starts) vs SD & @CHC
- Paul Blackburn (OAK) (2 starts) vs HOU & BOS
- Aaron Ashby (MIL) (2 starts) @CHC & vs SD
- Ranger Suarez (PHI) (2 starts) vs SF & LAA
- Jakob Junis (KC) (2 starts) @PHI & @MIA
- Rich Hill (BOS) (2 starts) vs BAL & @OAK
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