Fantasy Baseball: Two-start pitcher rankings for Week 7

Ranking aces like Clayton Kershaw is easy. Ranking one like Dallas Keuchel is not. Chris Towers says it's a feast-or-famine week in the two-start pitching landscape.

Al Melchior's pitching advice for Week 7

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This is an all-or-nothing week for two-start pitching. If you have Clayton Kershaw or one of the other aces, you're in great shape, because there are a bunch of No. 1 starters taking the mound. However, there are also plenty of back-of-the-rotation guys set to take the bump twice, creating a real feast-or-famine feel in the rankings.

There really aren't many guys to go add, in other words. The toughest call might be what you do with Dallas Keuchel, who has been pretty disastrous so far this season. Last year's AL Cy Young winner sports a 5.58 ERA through eight starts, and has just one quality start in his last six trips to the mound. His strikeout rate has been fine, but Keuchel has been hit hard and hasn't had pinpoint control, a bad combination for a pitcher who can't get by on pure stuff like some of his peers.

Despite his struggles, it would probably be an overreaction to bench Keuchel at this point with two starts on the way. Still, he's all the way down at 13th overall, and I thought about dropping him further, with Kyle Hendricks, Rick Porcello and Adam Conley all potential options. I wouldn't necessarily make that choice, but I couldn't blame you if you did; that's how bad Keuchel has been so far.

You probably want to sit guys like Jose Berrios and Sean Manaea with two starts, though. Their upside makes them worth stashing and waiting on -- at least, I think so -- but with the way both have been pitching, they're liable to do more harm than good. You want to chase upside with two-start pitchers, but anyone below, say, No. 21 here, might be more trouble than they are worth.

Two-Start Pitchers for Week 7
Rank	Pitcher	Start 1	Start 2
1	Clayton Kershaw, LAD	vs. LAA	@ SD
2	Max Scherzer, WAS	@ NYM	@ MIA
3	Noah Syndergaard, NYM	vs. WAS	vs. MIL
4	Madison Bumgarner, SF	@ SD	vs. CHC
5	David Price, BOS	@ KC	vs. CLE
6	Kenta Maeda, LAD	vs. LAA	@ SD
7	Jaime Garcia, STL	vs. COL	vs. ARI
8	Danny Salazar, CLE	vs. CIN	@ BOS
9	Jordan Zimmermann, DET	vs. MIN	vs. TB
10	Marcus Stroman, TOR	vs. TB	@ MIN
11	Drew Smyly, TB	@ TOR	@ DET
12	Carlos Rodon, CHW	vs. HOU	vs. KC
13	Dallas Keuchel, HOU	@ CHW	vs. TEX
14	Kyle Hendricks, CHC	@ MIL	@ SF
15	Rick Porcello, BOS	@ KC	vs. CLE
16	Adam Conley, MIA	@ PHI	vs. WAS
17	J.A. Happ, TOR	vs. TB	@ MIN
18	Juan Nicasio, PIT	vs. ATL	vs. COL
19	Jerad Eickhoff, PHI	vs. MIA	vs. ATL
20	Nathan Eovaldi, NYY	@ ARI	@ OAK
21	Yordano Ventura, KC	vs. BOS	@ CHW
22	Michael Pineda, NYY	@ ARI	@ OAK
23	Jose Berrios, MIN	@ DET	vs. TOR
24	Josh Tomlin, CLE	vs. CIN	@ BOS
25	Robbie Ray, ARI	vs. NYY	@ STL
26	Sean Manaea, OAK	vs. TEX	vs. NYY
27	Derek Holland, TEX	@ OAK	@ HOU
28	Phil Hughes, MIN	@ DET	vs. TOR
29	Jonathon Niese, PIT	vs. ATL	vs. COL
30	Wade Miley, SEA	@ BAL	@ CIN
31	Colin Rea, SD	vs. SF	vs. LAD
32	Jered Weaver, LAA	@ LAD	vs. BAL
33	Aaron Blair, ATL	@ PIT	@ PHI
34	Tyler Wilson, BAL	vs. SEA	@ LAA
35	John Lamb, CIN	@ CLE	vs. SEA
36	Chase Anderson, MIL	vs. CHC	@ NYM
37	Matt Shoemaker, LAA	@ LAD	vs. BAL
38	Alfredo Simon, CIN	@ CLE	vs. SEA
39	Williams Perez, ATL	@ PIT	@ PHI
40	Chris Rusin, COL	@ STL	@ PIT