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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