Welcome to your top 50 pitchers for Week 9! The fantasy baseball landscape is tricky, with injuries beginning to mount up and people turning back into pumpkins after excellent starts. What we continue to see, though, is excellent pitching and lots of it. Playing the right pitchers is a big part of how we 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 9:

Top 50 Starting Pitchers for Week 9

1. Nestor Cortes Jr. (NYY) (2 starts) @MIN & vs CHC
2. Corbin Burnes (MIL) vs PHI
3. Joe Musgrove (SD) vs COL
4. Gerrit Cole (NYY) @MIN
5. Sandy Alcantara (MIA) vs WAS
6. Zack Wheeler (PHI) vs ARI
7. Shane McClanahan (TB) vs STL
8. Kevin Gausman (TOR) @DET
9. Justin Verlander (HOU) vs SEA
10. Kyle Wright (ATL) (2 starts) vs OAK & PIT
11. Shane Bieber (CLE) vs TEX
12. Cristian Javier (HOU) (2 starts) vs SEA & MIA
13. Alek Manoah (TOR) @KC
14. Lucas Giolito (CWS) vs TEX
15. Carlos Rodon (SF) vs COL
16. Max Fried (ATL) vs PIT
17. Walker Buehler (LAD) @SF
18. Dylan Cease (CWS) vs LAD
19. Robbie Ray (SEA) (2 starts) @HOU & vs BOS
20. Blake Snell (SD) (2 starts) vs NYM & COL
21. Cal Quantrill (CLE) (2 starts) vs TEX & OAK
22. Zac Gallen (ARI) @PHI
23. Aaron Nola (PHI) @MIL
24. Julio Urias (LAD) @SF
25. Michael Kopech (CWS) (2 starts) vs LAD & TEX
26. Framber Valdez (HOU) vs MIA
27. Jeffrey Springs (TB) (2 starts) vs STL & @MIN
28. Garrett Whitlock (BOS) @LAA & @SEA
29. Logan Webb (SF) vs LAD
30. Pablo Lopez (MIA) @HOU
31. Jon Gray (TEX) (2 starts) @CLE & @CHW
32. Logan Gilbert (SEA) @HOU
33. Luis Garcia (SD) vs MIA
34. Tarik Skubal (DET) @PIT
35. Aaron Ashby (MIL) @WAS
36. Frankie Montas (OAK) @CLE
37. Carlos Carrasco (NYM) (2 starts) @SD & @LAA
38. Chris Bassitt (NYM) @SD
39. MacKenzie Gore (SD) vs COL
40. Eric Lauer (MIL) @WAS
41. Luis Castillo (CIN) @STL
42. Alex Cobb (SF) vs COL
43. Charlie Morton (ATL) vs PIT
44. Sean Manaea (SD) vs NYM
45. Shohei Ohtani (LAA) vs BOS
46. Ian Anderson (ATL) vs OAK
47. Nathan Eovaldi (BOS) @LAA
48. Yu Darvish (SD) @NYM
49. Dakota Hudson (STL) (2 starts) @TB & vs CIN
50. Graham Ashcraft (CIN) (2 starts) vs ARI & @STL

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