Hello and welcome to the 24th installment of our weekly two-start pitcher article for the 2025 MLB season.
I’ll be here every Friday to highlight some of the best two-start pitcher options in fantasy baseball leagues for the upcoming week, as well as some streaming options to keep in mind.
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Thinking ahead with your weekly strategy can give you an advantage on the waiver wire and hopefully be a difference-maker in the standings at the end of the season.
It’s getting to crunch time with only a few weeks remaining. The decisions that you make now could wind up making or breaking your entire season. Now is the time to really dig in and make sure we’re optimizing our rosters as well as possible.
This is a living document, so we’ll update the options below as the weekend moves along.
Before we get into it, we’ll start with a couple of notes on situations that may be unresolved or teams that may not have a two-start pitcher lined up for the upcoming week:
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Someone on the Red Sox is likely to make two starts next week, but as of Friday morning we’re still not entirely sure who that will be yet. Rookie right-hander Connelly Early was brilliant in his MLB debut last week and has earned another start for the Red Sox, but manager Alex Cora wouldn’t commit to when exactly that next start would come. He could stay as part of the regular five-man rotation and start on Monday – in which case he would get the two-start week (vs. Athletics, @ Rays). That would make him a strong streaming option in all leagues. It’s also possible that Payton Tolle stays on regular rest and starts on Monday, in which case he makes for one of the top overall options on the board next week. We’ll monitor the situation and update here if we gain any additional clarification.
As of now, it doesn’t appear as though anyone on the Guardians will make two starts next week. They have been rolling with a six-man rotation the past couple of trips through, though that could change with an off-day on their schedule on Monday. If that happens, they may skip Joey Cantillo, which would then set up Logan Allen for a two-start week (@ Tigers, @ Twins). We’ll monitor the situation through the weekend and keep you updated if anything changes.
We’re still waiting on clarity on what the Royals plan to do on Tuesday. They went with a bullpen day started by Jonathan Bowlan the last time this spot in the rotation came through. They could opt to use Monday’s off-day to move the…