You should be grinding two-start pitchers to give you an advantage over your competition during the season.

Each week, I will give you a breakdown of the two-start options for your fantasy leagues broken up into the following tiers:

• Must Start: Pitchers you have to start because of their talent/matchups.
• Should Start: Pitchers rostered in most formats and who should probably be in your lineup.
• Here We Go: Pitchers you are probably starting in most formats but who come with some level of risk.
• Feeling Lucky: Pitchers available in less than 25% of leagues that are risky but viable in deeper formats.
• Desperate Measures: Pitchers you shouldn’t use unless you have no choice.

These projected two-start pitchers are subject to change and will with the season just beginning. For whatever it’s worth, I’m a little more conservative earlier in the season as I don’t love getting my ratios trashed early on.

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Fantasy Baseball Two-Start Pitchers: Week 6

Must Start

• Max Fried (SP – ATL) at SEA, at LAD
• Grayson Rodriguez (SP – BAL) vs. NYY, at CIN
• Joe Ryan (SP – MIN) at CHW, vs. BOS
• Cristopher Sanchez (SP – PHI) at LAA, vs. SF
• Logan Webb (SP – SF) at BOS, at PHI
• Bryce Miller (SP – SEA) vs. ATL, at HOU
• Nestor Cortes (SP – NYY) at BAL, vs. DET
• Ryan Pepiot (SP, RP – TB) at MIL, vs. NYM
• Nick Lodolo (SP – CIN) at SD, vs. BAL

Should Start

Trevor Rogers (SP – MIA) vs. WAS, at OAK

Trevor Rogers has been up and down this season but you won’t find many two-start matchups as juicy as his. Oakland is one of the worst teams in the league and the Nationals are the third-worst team in baseball versus left-handed pitching this season.

Steven Matz (SP, RP – STL) at DET, vs. CHW

Similar to Rogers, Steven Matz has been up and down but gets a pretty cake matchup versus the White Sox, who have been the second-to-worst team in baseball versus left-handed pitching, and the Tigers, who have been the 21st. If you can’t use him here, when can you?

Jon Gray (SP – TEX) vs. WAS, at KC

Jon Gray has been all over the place, walking too many batters in some outings and giving up too many hits in others, but somehow he has put up a 2.92 ERA and 29% strikeout rate in his 24.2 innings. There is some risk to the back half of this matchup as Kansas City’s lineup is decent, but I don’t know how you sit Gray after what he has been able to manage so far.

Here We Go

Ryan Feltner (SP – COL) at MIA, at PIT

Ryan Feltner has struggled at home like all Colorado pitchers, but he has shown some pretty interesting skills and stuff, and the xERA says he has been pretty unlucky this year. It is always a risk to start a pitcher with a 5.68 ERA, but these aren’t matchups you are running away from when he spends the whole week away from Coors Field.

Jameson Taillon (SP – CHC) at NYM, vs. MIL

Jameson Taillon has looked good since returning from the injured list (IL). The Brewers are playing well but I am not as worried about the Mets as a team to avoid. There is a little risk as Taillon is still building up his pitch count, but when healthy, Taillon is a really good pitcher and he appears to finally be healthy, at least for now.

Javier Assad (SP, RP – CHC) at NYM, vs. MIL

Javier Assad gets the same matchups as Taillon and he has looked really good thus far. I am not a believer in his 24.5% strikeout rate as the swinging strike rate and contact rates don’t quite jive with a strikeout rate that high. However, he does a good job of getting out of innings by relying on his defense and is a usable pitcher for this two-start week.

Feeling Lucky

Bailey Falter (SP – PIT) at OAK, vs. COL

Bailey Falter isn’t a great pitcher, but these matchups are about as good as you can ask for. Oakland is one of the worst teams in the league and they play in a pitcher-friendly environment. The Rockies away from Coors are always worth attacking. There is risk here because of Falter’s skill level, but these matchups are too good to pass up.

Hunter Brown (SP – HOU) vs. CLE, vs. SEA

Hunter Brown has struggled this season, throwing 17.2 innings over five starts and allowing a 9.68 ERA and a 2.49 WHIP. However, he isn’t this bad and the home run problem that plagued him last year is the least of his worries. This isn’t an easy two-step as the Guardians are leading the Majors in run differential, but at some point, he will get it back together.

Desperate Measures

• Tommy Henry (SP – ARI) vs. LAD, vs. SD
• Dean Kremer (SP – BAL) vs. NYY, at CIN
• Cooper Criswell (SP, RP – BOS) vs. SF, at MIN
• Carlos Carrasco (SP – CLE) at HOU, vs. LAA
• Kenta Maeda (SP – DET) vs. STL, at NYY
• Daniel Lynch (SP – KC) at TOR, vs. TEX
• Griffin Canning (SP – LAA) vs. PHI, at CLE
• James Paxton (SP – LAD) at ARI, vs. ATL
• Bryse Wilson (RP – MIL) vs. TB, at CHC
• Luis Severino (SP – NYM) vs. CHC, at TB
• Clarke Schmidt (SP – NYY) at BAL, vs. DET
• Joe Boyle (SP – OAK) vs. PIT, vs. MIA
• Matt Waldron (SP – SD) vs. CIN, at ARI
• Yariel Rodriguez (SP, RP – TOR) vs. KC, at WAS
• Jake Irvin (SP – WAS) at MIA, vs. TOR

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