Fantasy Baseball: Two-start pitcher rankings for Week 20 identify Luke Weaver, Lance Lynn as sleepers

Week 20 (Aug. 6-12) isn't the greatest for two-start sleepers, but Scott White's rankings do reveal a few potential standouts.

By Scott White

Aug 5, 2018 at 3:08 pm ET • 2 min read

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The thing about two-start pitchers in Week 20 (Aug. 6-12) is you either have them or you don't. Consulting the waiver wire isn't going to yield much of great comfort or reliability.

Except maybe if you play in a shallow league. Kyle Gibson is technically owned in less than 80 percent of CBS Sports leagues, which makes him eligible to be called a sleeper. But it's not by much, and between his 3.47 ERA, his near strikeout per inning and his tendency to pitch seven innings or more, I kind of feel like he's a no-brainer.

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The same goes for the rest of the top nine on this list — and Rich Hill and Jameson Taillon aren't far off, each's scheduled start at Colorado creating just a little hesitation for me. Nos. 12-19 I'd more or less limit to points-league use.

But that range does include Dereck Rodriguez, Luke Weaver and Lance Lynn, all of whom are available in less than 80 percent of CBS Sports leagues. Lynn, in fact, is owned in less than half. Weaver will get a lot of attention as a two-start sleeper this week — and deservedly, given his matchups — but he has been so unreliable that I do think he's less than an automatic start in leagues where you're looking to preserve ERA and WHIP, such as standard Rotisserie.

Two-start pitchers for Week 20
Rank	Pitcher	Start 1	Start 2
1	Trevor Bauer, CLE	vs. MIN	at CHW
2	Charlie Morton, HOU	at SF	vs. SEA
3	Carlos Carrasco, CLE	vs. MIN	at CHW
4	Noah Syndergaard, NYM	vs. CIN	at MIA
5	Zack Godley, ARI	vs. PHI	at CIN
6	Jake Arrieta, PHI	at ARI	at SD
7	Kyle Gibson, MIN	at CLE	at DET
8	Sean Manaea, OAK	vs. LAD	at LAA
9	Cole Hamels, CHC	at KC	vs. WAS
10	Rich Hill, LAD	at OAK	at COL
11	Jameson Taillon, PIT	at COL	at SF
12	Sean Newcomb, ATL	at WAS	vs. MIL
13	Chase Anderson, MIL	vs. SD	at ATL
14	Dereck Rodriguez, SF	vs. HOU	vs. PIT
15	Marcus Stroman, TOR	vs. BOS	vs. TB
16	Luke Weaver, STL	at MIA	at KC
17	Lance Lynn, NYY	at CHW	vs. TEX
18	Joe Musgrove, PIT*	at COL	at SF
19	Kyle Freeland, COL	vs. PIT	vs. LAD
20	Wei-Yin Chen, MIA	vs. STL	vs. NYM
21	Matthew Boyd, DET	at LAA	vs. MIN
22	CC Sabathia, NYY	at CHW	vs. TEX
23	Tommy Milone, WAS	vs. ATL	at CHC
24	Wade LeBlanc, SEA*	at TEX	at HOU
25	Jake Junis, KC	vs. CHC	vs. STL
26	Felix Hernandez, SEA	at TEX	at HOU
27	Drew Pomeranz, BOS	at TOR	at BAL
28	Alex Cobb, BAL	at TB	vs. BOS
29	Andrew Cashner, BAL	at TB	vs. BOS
30	Antonio Senzatela, COL*	vs. PIT	vs. LAD
31	Clayton Richard, SD	at MIL	vs. PHI
32	Nick Tropeano, LAA	vs. DET	vs. OAK
33	Dylan Covey, CHW	vs. NYY	vs. CLE
34	Martin Perez, TEX	vs. SEA	at NYY
35	Adalberto Mejia, MIN	at CLE	at DET