Fantasy Baseball: Two-start pitcher rankings for Week 14

The two-start pitching options just aren't great for Week 14. If you're lucky, you have a stud like Max Scherzer, Zack Greinke or Carlos Carrasco set to take the mound twice this week, in which case your decision is easy.

Or maybe you have a more fringe-y option like Kenta Maeda, Kyle Hendricks or Masahiro Tanaka; most weeks, they're starting for you, but they aren't slam dunks. This week, they probably are, so that's an easy call.

However, if you are looking for two-start options on the waiver wire, it's a bit harder to get excited. Among the "relatively available" (owned in 70 percent of CBSSports.com leagues) crop of pitchers, there just aren't a lot of options. Matt Moore is someone I might look at in a two-start week, but he has to go against the Red Sox in his second start in Boston, and I'm not touching him with that kind of matchup looming. The same goes for A.J. Griffin, who gets the Red Sox at Fenway, before a soft landing back home against the Twins in his following start. Even a solid matchup like that can't make me buy into Griffin.

The two-start guys I might go out and get don't have the best situations either. Junior Guerra continues to pitch extremely well, as he finished off a strong month of June in which he had four quality starts in five trips to the mound, with a 3.00 ERA. He doesn't have the best matchups in the world on the way, with games against the Nationals and Cardinals, but he has held his own against some strong opponents in the past, including quality outings against the Cardinals and Cubs in May, making him a more interesting two-start option than he might otherwise seem to be.

However, the standout on this week's rankings might be one that makes me sound crazy: James Shields. Shields currently sports a 5.85 ERA for the season overall, including an 11.07 mark since getting to the White Sox. I advocated dropping Shields a few weeks back, and many followed that salient advice.

However, you might actually want to scoop him up for this week. Shields is coming off his best start in more than a month, and gets a nice pair of matchups to build on that with. He starts off the week with the slumping Yankees, and then gets the punchless Braves, two teams he should be able to handle even in his much-diminished current state. Shields has been a disaster for more than a month, but if he was ever going to turn it around, Week 14 is his chance.

Two-start pitchers for Week 14
Rank	Pitcher	Start 1	Start 2
1	Max Scherzer, WAS	vs. MIL	@ NYM
2	Carlos Carrasco, CLE	vs. DET	vs. NYY
3	Danny Salazar, CLE	vs. DET	vs. NYY
4	Zack Greinke, ARI	vs. SD	@ SF
5	John Lackey, CHC	vs. CIN	@ PIT
6	Aaron Sanchez, TOR	vs. KC	vs. DET
7	Carlos Martinez, STL	vs. PIT	@ MIL
8	Matt Harvey, NYM	vs. MIA	vs. WAS
9	Dallas Keuchel, HOU	vs. SEA	vs. OAK
10	Lance McCullers, HOU	vs. SEA	vs. OAK
11	Gio Gonzalez, WAS	vs. MIL	@ NYM
12	Kenta Maeda, LAD	vs. BAL	vs. SD
13	Kyle Hendricks, CHC	vs. CIN	@ PIT
14	James Shields, CHW	vs. NYY	vs. ATL
15	Masahiro Tanaka, NYY	@ CHW	@ CLE
16	Jordan Zimmermann SP,	@ CLE	@ TOR
17	Taijuan Walker, SEA	@ HOU	@ KC
18	Jake Odorizzi, TB	vs. LAA	@ BOS
19	Rick Porcello, BOS	vs. TEX	vs. TB
20	Steven Matz, NYM	vs. MIA	vs. WAS
21	Tom Koehler, MIA	@ NYM	vs. CIN
22	Junior Guerra, MIL	@ WAS	vs. STL
23	Jameson Taillon, PIT	@ STL	vs. CHC
24	Jake Peavy, SF	vs. COL	vs. ARI
25	Kendall Graveman, OAK	@ MIN	@ HOU
26	Jerad Eickhoff, PHI	vs. ATL	@ COL
27	Mike Foltynewicz, ATL	@ PHI	@ CHW
28	Daniel Norris, DET	@ CLE	@ TOR
29	Matt Moore, TB	vs. LAA	@ BOS
30	Mike Leake, STL	vs. PIT	@ MIL
31	Tim Lincecum, LAA	@ TB	@ BAL
32	R.A. Dickey, TOR	vs. KC	vs. DET
33	Yovani Gallardo, BAL	@ LAD	vs. LAA
34	Chris Young, KC	@ TOR	vs. SEA
35	Edinson Volquez, KC	@ TOR	vs. SEA
36	A.J. Griffin, TEX	@ BOS	vs. MIN
37	Jonathon Niese, PIT	@ STL	vs. CHC
38	Christian Friedrich, SD	@ ARI	@ LAD
39	Nick Martinez, TEX	@ BOS	vs. MIN
40	Erik Johnson, CWS	@ ARI	@ LAD
41	Eddie Butler, COL	@ SF	vs. PHI
42	CC Sabathia, NYY	@ CHW	@ CLE
43	Tyler Anderson, COL	@ SF	vs. PHI
44	Wade Miley, SEA	@ HOU	@ KC
45	Jered Weaver, LAA	@ TB	@ BAL
46	Sean Manaea, OAK	@ MIN	@ HOU
47	Cody Reed, CIN	@ CHC	@ MIA
48	Ricky Nolasco, MIN	vs. OAK	@ TEX
49	Tommy Milone, MIN	vs. OAK	@ TEX
50	Zach Eflin, PHI	vs. ATL	@ COL