Two-Start Pitchers Lookahead: Week 20 (2026 Fantasy Baseball)

Each week during the fantasy baseball season, I take a look at two-start pitchers for the week ahead. This week, we’ll focus on pitchers tentatively lined up to make multiple starts in Week 20 (August 10-August 16).

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Fantasy Baseball Two-Start Pitchers Lookahead: Week 20

Scheduling Notes

• Teams With Six Games: BAL, NYY, TBR, CWS, CLE, DET, KCR, MIN, ATH, HOU, SEA, ATL, MIA, NYM, PHI, WSH, CHC, CIN, PIT, STL, ARI, COL, SDP, SFG
• Teams With Seven Games: BOS, TOR, LAA, TEX, MIL, LAD

Targeting pitchers who face teams with high strikeout rates and who don’t generate much quality contact can be valuable. Here are the current bottom-five teams in strikeout rate against right- and left-handed pitchers:

The current bottom-five teams in wOBA against right- and left-handed pitchers:

Two-Start Pitchers

These are the pitchers lined up for two starts and their roster rates:

• Tarik Skubal (SP – DET): 99% | vs. CLE; vs. CWS
• Paul Skenes (SP – PIT): 99% | @ MIA; vs. BOS
• Dylan Cease (SP – TOR): 99% | vs. BOS; vs. NYY
• Sonny Gray (SP – BOS): 94% | @ TOR; @ PIT
• Foster Griffin (SP – WSH): 87% | vs. CHC; @ NYM
• Kevin Gausman (SP – TOR): 83% | vs. BOS; vs. NYY
• Shota Imanaga (SP – CHC): 83% | @ WSH; vs. STL
• Eury Perez (SP – MIA): 79% | vs. PIT; @ CIN
• Ranger Suarez (SP – BOS): 78% | @ TOR; @ PIT
• Sean Burke (SP – CWS): 71% | vs. CIN; @ DET
• Robbie Ray (SP – SFG): 70% | vs. HOU; vs. COL
• Kyle Harrison (SP – MIL): 70% | @ SDP; @ LAD
• Michael Soroka (SP – ARI): 49% | vs. COL; @ ATL
• Trevor Rogers (SP – BAL): 48% | @ MIN; @ TBR
• Ryan Weathers (SP – NYY): 30% | vs. SEA; @ TOR
• Joey Cantillo (SP – CLE): 25% | @ DET; vs. SDP
• Bailey Ober (SP – MIN): 18% | vs. BAL; vs. PHI
• Shane Drohan (SP – MIL): 17% | @ SDP; @ LAD
• Noah Cameron (SP – KCR): 13% | @ LAD; @ LAA
• Dustin May (SP – STL): 12% | vs. PHI; @ CHC
• Grant Holmes (SP – ATL): 11% | vs. NYM; vs. ARI
• Hayden Wesneski (SP – HOU): 7% | @ SFG; vs. SEA
• Grayson Rodriguez (SP – LAA): 5% | vs. TEX; vs. KCR
• Rhett Lowder (SP – CIN): 5% | @ CWS; vs. MIA
• Eric Lauer (SP – LAD): 5% | vs. KCR; vs. MIL
• Sean Manaea (SP – NYM): 3% | @ ATL; vs. WSH
• Gabriel Hughes (SP – COL): 3% | @ ARI; @ SFG
• Jacob Lopez (SP – ATH): 2% | vs. TBR; vs. TEX
• Ryan Johnson (SP – LAA): 2% | vs. TEX; vs. KCR
• German Marquez (SP – SDP): 1% | vs. MIL; @ CLE
• Cal Quantrill (SP – TEX): 0% | @ LAA; @ ATH

Notes

• The trade deadline will undoubtedly shake up the two-start pitchers. Tarik Skubal, Foster Griffin and Dustin May are just some of the names scheduled to make double starts, but could be moved.
• Bailey Ober gets starts against the Orioles (26th) and Phillies (27th), who both rank in the bottom five teams in strikeout rate against righties. His strikeout rate is currently on a two-year downturn, but it doesn’t hurt to face teams who make it easier.
• Grant Holmes gets matchups against the Mets and Diamondbacks. They are tied for the worst wOBA against right-handed pitchers in the league, but it could be a trap. Over the past month, they have the 11th- and 12th-best wOBA against righties, respectively. To top it off, the Mets and Diamondbacks have both already faced Holmes this season.

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