Latest fantasy baseball forecaster espn 2026 mlb starting pitcher hitter ranks week 3 april 13 19

Tristan H. CockcroftApr 13, 2026, 04:12 PM ET
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Fantasy baseball's Week 3 is a busier one for you AL-only fantasy baseball players, as among the 10 teams scheduled to play on all seven days, eight hail from the American League. All 30 teams are scheduled for at least six games.

Wednesday is Jackie Robinson Day, with all 30 major league teams scheduled to play. Among the highlights are the New York Mets at the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on ESPN, beginning at 10 p.m. ET. Shohei Ohtani currently aligns to start that game for the Dodgers.

Lineup lock times

Week 3

Date	Total games	First game time	Day games
Monday, April 13	10	4:10 PM	1
Tuesday, April 14	15	6:35 PM	0
Wednesday, April 15	15	12:35 PM	3
Thursday, April 16	10	12:35 PM	7
Friday, April 17	15	2:20 PM	1
Saturday, April 18	15	1:35 PM	8
Sunday, April 19	15	1:35 PM	14

Scheduling quirks

Week 3: Teams with the most games

Total		Home		vs. LHSP		vs. RHSP
10 tied with	7	Athletics	7	Yankees	5	Marlins	6
		Yankees	7	Tigers	4	Mariners	6
		Pirates	7	Twins	4	Giants	6
		Astros	6	Orioles	3	Nationals	6
		Twins	6	Cubs	3	13 tied with	5
		Phillies	6	White Sox	3

Starting pitcher ranks

Week 3: April 13-19

Rk	Pitcher	Team	1st Start	2nd Start
1	Bryan Woo	SEA	Tue 4/14-@SD (King)	Sun 4/19-TEX (Gore)
2	Paul Skenes	PIT	Mon 4/13-WSH (Cavalli)	Sat 4/18-TB (Rasmussen)
3	Cristopher Sanchez	PHI	Mon 4/13-CHC (Assad)	Sat 4/18-ATL (Holmes)
4	George Kirby	SEA	Mon 4/13-HOU (Burrows)	Sat 4/18-TEX (Eovaldi)
5	Garrett Crochet	BOS	Mon 4/13-@MIN (Ober)	Sun 4/19-DET (Valdez)
6	Nathan Eovaldi	TEX	Mon 4/13-@ATH (Severino)	Sat 4/18-@SEA (Kirby)
7	Kevin Gausman	TOR	Tue 4/14-@MIL (Misiorowski)	Sun 4/19-@ARI (Nelson)
8	Michael King	SD	Tue 4/14-SEA (Woo)	Sun 4/19-@LAA (Detmers)
9	David Peterson	NYM	Mon 4/13-@LAD (Wrobleski)	Sun 4/19-@CHC (Assad)
10	Robbie Ray	SF	Tue 4/14-@CIN (Singer)	Sun 4/19-@WSH (Mikolas)
11	MacKenzie Gore	TEX	Tue 4/14-@ATH (Springs)	Sun 4/19-@SEA (Woo)
12	Will Warren	NYY	Mon 4/13-LAA (Kikuchi)	Sat 4/18-KC (Cameron)
13	Ryan Weathers	NYY	Tue 4/14-LAA (Detmers)	Sun 4/19-KC (Ragans)
14	Jeffrey Springs	ATH	Tue 4/14-TEX (Gore)	Sun 4/19-CWS (Schultz)
15	Framber Valdez	DET	Tue 4/14-KC (Ragans)	Sun 4/19-@BOS (Crochet)
16	Chris Sale	ATL	Fri 4/17-@PHI (Painter)
17	Reynaldo Lopez	ATL	Tue 4/14-MIA (Meyer)	Sun 4/19-@PHI (Wheeler)
18	Luis Severino	ATH	Mon 4/13-TEX (Eovaldi)	Sat 4/18-CWS (Fedde)
19	Eury Perez	MIA	Mon 4/13-@ATL (Holmes)	Sun 4/19-MIL (Misiorowski)
20	Jacob Misiorowski	MIL	Tue 4/14-TOR (Gausman)	Sun 4/19-@MIA (Perez)
21	Bailey Ober	MIN	Mon 4/13-BOS (Crochet)	Sun 4/19-CIN (Singer)
22	Gavin Williams	CLE	Mon 4/13-@STL (Liberatore)	Sat 4/18-BAL (Kremer)
23	Mitch Keller	PIT	Tue 4/14-WSH (Mikolas)	Sun 4/19-TB (McClanahan)
24	Logan Gilbert	SEA	Fri 4/17-TEX (deGrom)
25	Cole Ragans	KC	Tue 4/14-@DET (Valdez)	Sun 4/19-@NYY (Weathers)
26	Noah Schultz	CWS	Tue 4/14-TB (McClanahan)	Sun 4/19-@ATH (Springs)
27	Max Fried	NYY	Thu 4/16-LAA (Farris)
28	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD	Tue 4/14-NYM (McLean)
29	Dean Kremer	BAL	Mon 4/13-ARI (Nelson)	Sat 4/18-@CLE (Williams)
30	Zack Wheeler	PHI	Sun 4/19-ATL (Lopez)
31	Joe Ryan	MIN	Fri 4/17-CIN (Williamson)
32	Grant Holmes	ATL	Mon 4/13-MIA (Perez)	Sat 4/18-@PHI (Sanchez)
33	Tarik Skubal	DET	Sat 4/18-@BOS (Bello)
34	Jesus Luzardo	PHI	Wed 4/15-CHC (Imanaga)
35	Mike Burrows	HOU	Mon 4/13-@SEA (Kirby)	Sun 4/19-STL (Liberatore)
36	Ryne Nelson	ARI	Mon 4/13-@BAL (Kremer)	Sun 4/19-TOR (Gausman)
37	Brady Singer	CIN	Tue 4/14-SF (Ray)	Sun 4/19-@MIN (Ober)
38	Joey Cantillo	CLE	Tue 4/14-@STL (McGreevy)	Sun 4/19-BAL (Rogers)
39	Jacob deGrom	TEX	Fri 4/17-@SEA (Gilbert)
40	Luis Castillo	SEA	Thu 4/16-@SD (Buehler)
41	Yusei Kikuchi	LAA	Mon 4/13-@NYY (Warren)	Sat 4/18-SD (Pivetta)
42	Shota Imanaga	CHC	Wed 4/15-@PHI (Luzardo)
43	Luis Gil	NYY	Wed 4/15-LAA (Kochanowicz)
44	Nolan McLean	NYM	Tue 4/14-@LAD (Yamamoto)
45	Aaron Nola	PHI	Tue 4/14-CHC (Rea)
46	Anthony Kay	CWS	Thu 4/16-TB (Matz)
47	Brandon Woodruff	MIL	Fri 4/17-@MIA (Junk)
48	Shohei Ohtani	LAD	Wed 4/15-NYM (Holmes)
49	Dylan Cease	TOR	Wed 4/15-@MIL (Patrick)
50	Seth Lugo	KC	Wed 4/15-@DET (Flaherty)
51	Freddy Peralta	NYM	Sat 4/18-@CHC (Taillon)
52	Cam Schlittler	NYY	Fri 4/17-KC (Wacha)
53	Kris Bubic	KC	Thu 4/16-@DET (Montero)
54	Trevor Rogers	BAL	Tue 4/14-ARI (Kelly)	Sun 4/19-@CLE (Cantillo)
55	Sonny Gray	BOS	Tue 4/14-@MIN (Abel)
56	Sandy Alcantara	MIA	Sat 4/18-MIL (Sproat)
57	Logan Webb	SF	Fri 4/17-@WSH (Littell)
58	Shane McClanahan	TB	Tue 4/14-@CWS (Schultz)	Sun 4/19-@PIT (Keller)
59	Foster Griffin	WSH	Thu 4/16-@PIT (Ashcraft)
60	Nick Pivetta	SD	Sat 4/18-@LAA (Kikuchi)
61	Edward Cabrera	CHC	Fri 4/17-NYM (Senga)
62	Javier Assad	CHC	Mon 4/13-@PHI (Sanchez)	Sun 4/19-NYM (Peterson)
63	Tanner Bibee	CLE	Fri 4/17-BAL (Bassitt)
64	Taj Bradley	MIN	Sat 4/18-CIN (Abbott)
65	Merrill Kelly	ARI	Tue 4/14-@BAL (Rogers)
66	Jameson Taillon	CHC	Sat 4/18-NYM (Peralta)
67	Noah Cameron	KC	Sat 4/18-@NYY (Warren)
68	Parker Messick	CLE	Thu 4/16-BAL (Baz)
69	Matthew Liberatore	STL	Mon 4/13-CLE (Williams)	Sun 4/19-@HOU (Burrows)
70	Reid Detmers	LAA	Tue 4/14-@NYY (Weathers)	Sun 4/19-SD (King)
71	Michael Wacha	KC	Fri 4/17-@NYY (Schlittler)
72	Drew Rasmussen	TB	Sat 4/18-@PIT (Skenes)
73	Michael Soroka	ARI	Fri 4/17-TOR (Lauer)
74	Jacob Lopez	ATH	Thu 4/16-TEX (Leiter)
75	Michael McGreevy	STL	Tue 4/14-CLE (Cantillo)
76	Jack Flaherty	DET	Wed 4/15-KC (Lugo)
77	Shane Baz	BAL	Thu 4/16-@CLE (Messick)
78	Andrew Abbott	CIN	Sat 4/18-@MIN (Bradley)
79	Kodai Senga	NYM	Fri 4/17-@CHC (Cabrera)
80	Jose Quintana	COL	Wed 4/15-@HOU (Arrighetti)
81	Landen Roupp	SF	Thu 4/16-@CIN (Burns)
82	Steven Matz	TB	Thu 4/16-@CWS (Kay)
83	Emerson Hancock	SEA	Wed 4/15-@SD (Vasquez)
84	Zac Gallen	ARI	Sat 4/18-TOR (Scherzer)
85	Kyle Bradish	BAL	Wed 4/15-ARI (Rodriguez)
86	Patrick Corbin	TOR	Thu 4/16-@MIL (Harrison)
87	Slade Cecconi	CLE	Wed 4/15-@STL (May)
88	Colton Gordon	HOU	Tue 4/14-COL (Lorenzen)
89	Colin Rea	CHC	Tue 4/14-@PHI (Nola)
90	Clay Holmes	NYM	Wed 4/15-@LAD (Ohtani)
91	Aaron Civale	ATH	Fri 4/17-CWS (Martin)
92	Erick Fedde	CWS	Sat 4/18-@ATH (Severino)
93	Janson Junk	MIA	Fri 4/17-MIL (Woodruff)
94	Spencer Arrighetti	HOU	Wed 4/15-COL (Quintana)
95	Jack Leiter	TEX	Thu 4/16-@ATH (Lopez)
96	Chad Patrick	MIL	Wed 4/15-TOR (Cease)
97	Tomoyuki Sugano	COL	Thu 4/16-@HOU (France)
98	Chase Burns	CIN	Thu 4/16-SF (Roupp)
99	Nick Martinez	TB	Fri 4/17-@PIT (Chandler)
100	Davis Martin	CWS	Fri 4/17-@ATH (Civale)
101	Kumar Rocker	TEX	Wed 4/15-@ATH (Ginn)
102	Jose Soriano	LAA	Fri 4/17-SD (Marquez)
103	Connelly Early	BOS	Wed 4/15-@MIN (Woods Richardson)
104	Ranger Suarez	BOS	Fri 4/17-DET (Mize)
105	Randy Vasquez	SD	Wed 4/15-SEA (Hancock)
106	Andre Pallante	STL	Sat 4/18-@HOU (Bolton)
107	Simeon Woods Richardson	MIN	Wed 4/15-BOS (Early)
108	Lance McCullers Jr.	HOU	Fri 4/17-STL (Leahy)
109	Miles Mikolas	WSH	Tue 4/14-@PIT (Keller)	Sun 4/19-SF (Ray)
110	Braxton Ashcraft	PIT	Thu 4/16-WSH (Griffin)
111	Chris Bassitt	BAL	Fri 4/17-@CLE (Bibee)
112	Sean Burke	CWS	Wed 4/15-TB (Scholtens)
113	Rhett Lowder	CIN	Wed 4/15-SF (Mahle)
114	Dustin May	STL	Wed 4/15-CLE (Cecconi)
115	Zack Littell	WSH	Fri 4/17-SF (Webb)
116	Jesse Scholtens	TB	Wed 4/15-@CWS (Burke)
117	Kyle Leahy	STL	Fri 4/17-@HOU (McCullers)
118	Jake Irvin	WSH	Wed 4/15-@PIT (Mlodzinski)
119	Walker Buehler	SD	Thu 4/16-SEA (Castillo)
120	Mitch Farris	LAA	Thu 4/16-@NYY (Fried)
121	Adrian Houser	SF	Sat 4/18-@WSH (Cavalli)
122	Tyler Glasnow	LAD	Fri 4/17-@COL (Feltner)
123	Tyler Mahle	SF	Wed 4/15-@CIN (Lowder)
124	J.T. Ginn	ATH	Wed 4/15-TEX (Rocker)
125	Bubba Chandler	PIT	Fri 4/17-TB (Martinez)
126	Max Scherzer	TOR	Sat 4/18-@ARI (Gallen)
127	Brandon Sproat	MIL	Sat 4/18-@MIA (Alcantara)
128	Kyle Harrison	MIL	Thu 4/16-TOR (Corbin)
129	J.P. France	HOU	Thu 4/16-COL (Sugano)
130	Cody Bolton	HOU	Sat 4/18-STL (Pallante)
131	Eduardo Rodriguez	ARI	Wed 4/15-@BAL (Bradish)
132	Cade Cavalli	WSH	Mon 4/13-@PIT (Skenes)	Sat 4/18-SF (Houser)
133	Brandon Williamson	CIN	Fri 4/17-@MIN (Ryan)
134	Keider Montero	DET	Thu 4/16-KC (Bubic)
135	Justin Wrobleski	LAD	Mon 4/13-NYM (Peterson)
136	Brayan Bello	BOS	Sat 4/18-DET (Skubal)
137	Bryce Elder	ATL	Wed 4/15-MIA (Paddack)
138	Chris Paddack	MIA	Wed 4/15-@ATL (Elder)
139	Jack Kochanowicz	LAA	Wed 4/15-@NYY (Gil)
140	Max Meyer	MIA	Tue 4/14-@ATL (Lopez)
141	Carmen Mlodzinski	PIT	Wed 4/15-WSH (Irvin)
142	Andrew Painter	PHI	Fri 4/17-ATL (Sale)
143	Casey Mize	DET	Fri 4/17-@BOS (Suarez)
144	Eric Lauer	TOR	Fri 4/17-@ARI (Soroka)
145	Mick Abel	MIN	Tue 4/14-BOS (Gray)
146	Michael Lorenzen	COL	Tue 4/14-@HOU (Gordon)	Sun 4/19-LAD (Sasaki)
147	German Marquez	SD	Fri 4/17-@LAA (Soriano)
148	Roki Sasaki	LAD	Sun 4/19-@COL (Lorenzen)
149	Emmet Sheehan	LAD	Sat 4/18-@COL (Freeland)
150	Kyle Freeland	COL	Sat 4/18-LAD (Sheehan)
151	Ryan Feltner	COL	Fri 4/17-LAD (Glasnow)

Hitter ratings

Week 3: April 13-19

Overall		LHB		RHB		SB
Nationals	10.0	Rockies	10.0	Nationals	9.9	Athletics	10.0
Rockies	8.8	Giants	9.8	Reds	9.0	White Sox	10.0
Pirates	8.4	Guardians	9.1	Pirates	8.9	Astros	10.0
Guardians	8.3	Cardinals	8.8	Orioles	8.4	Brewers	10.0
Giants	8.2	Blue Jays	7.8	Yankees	7.8	Pirates	10.0
Reds	8.0	Yankees	7.8	Dodgers	7.7	Rays	10.0
Cardinals	7.6	Pirates	7.4	Astros	7.3	Rangers	10.0
Yankees	7.5	Padres	6.3	Guardians	7.1	Phillies	9.9
Orioles	7.3	Nationals	6.1	Giants	6.9	Mariners	9.5
Astros	7.0	Astros	6.1	Red Sox	6.7	Rockies	9.0