With just two weeks left in the baseball season, most head-to-head championships will be in full swing. We break down the two-start pitchers and and matchups for the coming week.
By Peter Madden
• 3 min read
Our weekly guide to the Fantasy matchups posts every Sunday of the season and will help forecast the best hitters to use, the ones to sit and outline those all-important two-start pitchers.
| This week's schedule | |||
| AL early | NL early | AL late | NL late |
| BOS@TB | SF@WAS | BOS@BAL | HOU@CHC |
| BAL@NYY | HOU@PIT | TOR@NYY | NYM@WAS |
| SEA@TOR | FLA@NYM | SEA@DET | PHI@CIN |
| CLE@CHW | STL@CIN | MIN@CHW | FLA@ATL |
| DET@KC | PHI@ATL | CLE@KC | STL@MIL |
| MIN@OAK | CHC@MIL | TB@LAA | SF@COL |
| TEX@LAA | SD@COL | TEX@OAK | SD@ARI |
| LAD@ARI | PIT@LAD | ||
| Bold denotes a four-game series. | |||
Note: The Orioles, Yankees, Mariners, Indians, White Sox, Blue Jays, Twins, Padres, Rockies, Astros and Pirates all play seven games this week.
Five best hitters schedules
- Los Angeles Angels -- 3 vs. TEX, 3 vs. TB
- .Rangers and Devil Rays at home.
- Two bad staffs, two small parks
- Six games vs. struggling staffs
- Tigers continue to be feisty.
- Seven home games against bad staffs.
Five worst hitters schedules
- Minnesota Twins -- 3 at OAK, 4 at CHW
- Pathetic offense faces two goos staffs.
- Three at Shea, three vs. Braves.
- Seven games vs. playoff chasing rivals.
- Six games vs. hungry playoff contenders
- Four vs. Astros staff, three at L.A.
Two-start pitchers
| Must-start options | ||
| Pitcher | Start No. 1 | Start No. 2 |
| David Wells | at TB (Hendrickson) | at BAL (Bedard) |
| Kevin Millwood | at CHW (Garcia) | at KC (Greinke) |
| Freddy Garcia | vs. CLE (Millwood) | vs. MIN (Radke) |
| Brad Radke | at OAK (Zito) | at CHW (Garcia) |
| Barry Zito | vs. MIN (Radke) | vs. TEX (Dominguez) |
| Roger Clemens | at PIT (Snell) | at CHC (Zambrano) |
| Jake Westbrook | at CHW (Buehrle) | at KC (Gobble) |
| Bartolo Colon | vs. TEX (Dominguez) | vs. TB (Hendrickson) |
| A.J. Burnett | at NYM (Benson) | at ATL (Ramirez) |
| Andy Pettitte | at PIT (Duke) | at CHC (Williams) |
| Livan Hernandez | vs. SF (Cain) | vs. NYM (Benson) |
| Advisable options | ||
| Pitcher | Start No. 1 | Start No. 2 |
| Doug Davis | vs. CHC (Williams) | vs. STL (Suppan) |
| Chien-Ming Wang | vs. BAL (Maine) | vs. TOR (Downs) |
| Josh Towers | vs. SEA (Harris) | at NYY (Small) |
| Mark Buehrle | vs. CLE (Westbrook) | vs. MIN (Liriano) |
| Jeff Suppan | at CIN (Keisler) | at MIL (Davis) |
| Aaron Small | vs. BAL (Bedard) | vs. TOR (Towers) |
| Derek Lowe | at ARI (Vazquez) | vs. PIT (Duke) |
| Francisco Liriano | at OAK (Blanton) | at CHW (Buehrle) |
| Horacio Ramirez | vs. PHI (Lidle) | vs. FLA (Burnett) |
| Questionable options | ||
| Pitcher | Start No. 1 | Start No. 2 |
| Kris Benson | vs. FLA (Burnett) | at WAS (Hernandez) |
| Zach Duke | vs. HOU (Pettitte) | at LAD (Lowe) |
| Matt Cain | at WAS (Hernandez) | at COL (Kim) |
| Mike Maroth | at KC (Greinke) | vs. SEA (Harris) |
| Woody Williams | at COL (B. Kim) | at ARI (Webb) |
| Brian Lawrence | at COL (S. Kim) | at ARI (Vazquez) |
| High-risk options | ||
| Pitcher | Start No. 1 | Start No. 2 |
| Mark Hendrickson | vs. BOS (Wells) | at LAA (Colon) |
| Erik Bedard | at NYY (Small) | vs. BOS (Wells) |
| Jamie Moyer | at TOR (Downs) | at DET (Douglass) |
| Scott Downs | vs. SEA (Moyer) | at NYY (Wang) |
| Juan Dominguez | at LAA (Colon) | at OAK (Zito) |
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