Now that the season is just beginning, you should be grinding the two-start pitchers to give you an advantage over your competition.

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

Each week, I will be giving 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 fewer than 25% of leagues that are risky, but viable in deeper formats.
• Desperate Measures: Pitchers you shouldn’t use unless you have no choice.

Make sure you are aware that when making fantasy baseball start or sit decisions that these projected two-start pitchers are subject to change.

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Fantasy Baseball Two-Start Pitchers

Must Start

• Joe Ryan (SP – MIN) at TB, at SEA
• Hunter Brown (SP – HOU) vs ATH, vs TB
• Jacob deGrom (SP – TEX) vs TOR, vs STL
• Clay Holmes (SP – NYM) vs CHW, vs SD
• Spencer Strider (SP – ATL) at PHI, vs BOS

Should Start

Tomoyuki Sugano (SP – BAL) vs STL, vs CHW

Sugano has been great this season, throwing 58.2 innings with a 3.07 ERA. Now, he has been extremely lucky and there have not been many strikeouts yet, but with the White Sox in the back half of this two-step, there is no reason not to roll with him here.

Ryan Weathers (SP – MIA) at SD, vs SF

Weathers has been great since his return from the IL, and talent has never really been the question for him, it’s been health. While this isn’t the greatest set of matchups, you should be using him in his matchups as long as he is healthy.

Ranger Suarez (SP – PHI) vs ATL, vs MIL

Suarez has pitched well since returning from the IL, not allowing many walks or home runs while still getting a good amount of strikeouts. He has a pretty good slate of matchups versus two struggling offenses

Here We Go

Randy Vasquez (SP – SD) vs MIA, vs PIT

Vasquez has been pretty good, throwing 49 innings with a 3.49 ERA this season despite a ton of luck and a lack of strikeouts. This is a good week to hope the luck continues versus two of the worst teams in baseball in the Marlins and the Pirates.

Hayden Birdsong (SP – SF) at DET, at MIA

Birdsong has now joined the Giants rotation and looked good in his first start versus the Royals. He has really good stuff, but can struggle with command and control. He has a great matchup at the end of the week, which makes him a pretty strong start, even with a tough Tigers team at the start of the two-step.

Michael Lorenzen (SP – KC) vs CIN, vs DET

Lorenzen has been up and down this season, but he is a pretty stable mid-rotation starter for deeper leagues. He has a good matchup at the beginning of the week and a bad one at the end of the week, but he has been amazing at home, and both of these games are in Kansas City.

Andrew Heaney (SP – PIT) at ARI, at SD

Heaney has quietly been very good this season, throwing 55.2 innings with a 2.91 ERA and 42 strikeouts. He has even done his best work on the road which makes a really tough two-start week playable in spite of benefiting from a lot of luck so far.

Jameson Taillon (SP – CHC) vs COL, vs CIN

Taillon has been up and down this season, but you can’t really pass up on these matchups. The Rockies have been the worst team in baseball and are terrible when on the road, and the Reds have struggled offensively over the last month. You are firing this one up in most formats.

Feeling Lucky

Nick Martinez (SP – CIN) at KC, at CHC

Martinez has been great this season, throwing 57.2 innings with a 3.43 ERA and 43 strikeouts. While he has been worse on the road this season, you get a great matchup at Kansas City before a tougher one in Chicago, which makes this playable in deeper formats.

Erick Fedde (SP – STL) at BAL, at TEX

Fedde has been up and down this season, but where he has been excellent is on the road. Through 29.2 road innings, Fedde has a 2.43 ERA and 17 strikeouts. Fedde allows a lot of contact, but he has a decent set of matchups here against a good, but not great, Orioles offense and a Rangers offense that has been terrible.

JP Sears (SP – ATH) at HOU, at TOR

Sears has struggled as of late, but he has been great on the road, throwing 35 innings with a 3.09 ERA and 22 strikeouts when he is not in the minor league park the A’s are playing in, when in Sacramento. He has a tough matchup to start the week, but a good one in Toronto to end it, making him an interesting deep league streamer.

Desperate Measure

• Keider Montero (SP – DET) at STL, vs CLE
• Ryan Yarbrough (SP – NYY) at LAA, at LAD
• Zack Littell (SP – TB) vs MIN, at HOU
• Taj Bradley (SP -TB) vs MIN, at HOU
• Bowden Francis (SP – TOR) at TEX, vs ATH
• Adrian Houser (SP – CHW) at NYM, at BAL
• Carson Palmquist (SP – COL) at CHC, at NYM
• Mitchell Parker (SP – WAS) at SEA, vs SF
• Gavin Williams (SP – CLE) vs LAD, vs LAA

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