Fantasy Baseball Week 11 Preview: Two-start pitcher rankings highlight Wade Miley, Griffin Canning as sleepers

While there's no shortage of useful two-start options in Week 11, most of them are owned already. Scott White unearths the few gems who might still be available.

By Scott White

Jun 2, 2019 at 6:06 pm ET • 1 min read

Week 11 (June 3-9) is looking like one of those where you'll probably have a couple two-start options already and won't be able to add any more.

The top 14 are all basically must-start and, in terms of ownership, are well beyond the threshold that would typically denote a sleeper. The only such pitchers I can give my full endorsement to are Wade Miley, who has excellent matchups and has recently demonstrated improved swing-and-miss ability, and Griffin Canning, who has looked electric since his promotion in late April. In competitive leagues of any real size, even they're probably owned already.

More-available types like Pablo Lopez and Dylan Bundy have shown enough potential recently that you could roll the dice on them in a points league, where a bad start wouldn't burn you as badly, but freeing up a roster spot for them may be more trouble than it's worth.

Must start, all formats
1	Blake Snell, TB	at DET	at BOS
2	Stephen Strasburg, WAS	vs. CHW	at SD
3	Noah Syndergaard, NYM	vs. SF	vs. COL
4	Luis Castillo, CIN	at STL	at PHI
5	Shane Bieber, CLE	vs. MIN	vs. NYY
6	Aaron Nola, PHI	at SD	vs. CIN
7	Mike Minor, TEX	vs. BAL	vs. OAK
8	Walker Buehler, LAD	at ARI	at SF
9	Chris Paddack, SD	vs. PHI	vs. WAS
10	Masahiro Tanaka, NYY	at TOR	at CLE
11	Madison Bumgarner, SF	at NYM	vs. LAD
12	Kyle Hendricks, CHC	vs. COL	vs. STL
13	Frankie Montas, OAK	at LAA	at TEX
14	Max Fried, ATL	at PIT	at MIA
Sleepers
15	Eduardo Rodriguez, BOS	at KC	vs. TB
16	Wade Miley, HOU	at SEA	vs. BAL
17	Griffin Canning, LAA	vs. OAK	vs. SEA
Better left for points leagues
18	Robbie Ray, ARI	vs. LAD	at TOR
19	Jon Lester, CHC	vs. LAA	vs. STL
20	Devin Smeltzer, MIN	at CLE	at DET
21	Pablo Lopez, MIA	at MIL	vs. ATL
22	Dylan Bundy, BAL	at TEX	at HOU
No thanks
23	Chase Anderson, MIL	vs. MIA	vs. PIT
24	Trevor Cahill, LAA	at CHC	vs. SEA
25	Corbin Martin, HOU	at SEA	vs. BAL
26	Eric Lauer, SD	vs. PHI	vs. WAS
27	Jeff Hoffman, COL*	at CHC	at NYM
28	Clayton Richard, TOR	vs. NYY	vs. ARI
29	Glenn Sparkman, KC	vs. BOS	vs. CHW
30	Ryan Carpenter, DET	vs. TB	vs. MIN
31	Genesis Cabrera, STL	vs. CIN	at CHC
32	Wade LeBlanc, SEA	vs. HOU	at LAA
33	Steven Brault, PIT*	vs. ATL	at MIL
34	Drew Smyly, TEX	vs. BAL	vs. OAK
*RP-eligible \| ^expected to follow opener