Latest fantasy baseball forecaster espn 2026 mlb starting pitcher hitter ranks week 12 june 15 21

Tristan H. CockcroftJun 15, 2026, 04:08 PM ET
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Fantasy baseball's Week 12 comes with some unusual scheduling quirks due to FIFA World Cup matches affecting games in Kansas City, Philadelphia and Texas. It's the rare week where the only two days in which all 30 teams are scheduled to play are on Tuesday and Sunday.

The Kansas City Royals have a scheduled off day Saturday, splitting up their three-game home series against the St. Louis Cardinals into games on Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
The Philadelphia Phillies are off Friday, meaning that their three-game home series against the New York Mets will be played on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Texas Rangers have a Wednesday off day, so the finale of their three-game, week-opening series against the Minnesota Twins is scheduled for Thursday.

One additional, related note: The Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners, who were originally scheduled to play a split doubleheader at T-Mobile Park on Saturday due to World Cup matches in Seattle, are now scheduled to play a traditional three-game series Friday through Sunday.

Lineup lock times

Week 12

Date	Total games	First game time	Day games
Monday, June 15	10	6:40 PM	0
Tuesday, June 16	15	6:40 PM	0
Wednesday, June 17	14	12:40 PM	7
Thursday, June 18	9	1:35 PM	4
Friday, June 19	14	2:20 PM	1
Saturday, June 20	13	1:10 PM	7
Sunday, June 21	15	1:35 PM	14

Scheduling quirks

Week 12: Teams with the most games

Total		Home		vs. LHSP		vs. RHSP
Athletics	7	Athletics	7	7 tied with	3	Athletics	6
Angels	7	9 tied with	6			Orioles	6
28 tied with	6					Red Sox	6
						Rangers	6
						11 tied with	5

Starting pitcher ranks

Week 12: June 15-21

Rk	Pitcher	Team	1st Start	2nd Start
1	Zack Wheeler	PHI	Mon 6/15-MIA (Gusto)	Sun 6/21-NYM (Tong)
2	Chase Burns	CIN	Mon 6/15-NYM (Myers)	Sun 6/21-@NYY (Cole)
3	Payton Tolle	BOS	Tue 6/16-TOR (Cease)	Sun 6/21-@SEA (Hancock)
4	Dylan Cease	TOR	Tue 6/16-@BOS (Tolle)	Sun 6/21-@CHC (Imanaga)
5	Cristopher Sanchez	PHI	Sat 6/20-NYM (Peralta)
6	Gerrit Cole	NYY	Tue 6/16-CWS (Martin)	Sun 6/21-CIN (Burns)
7	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD	Sat 6/20-BAL (Rogers)
8	Troy Melton	DET	Mon 6/15-@HOU (Teng)	Sat 6/20-CWS (Fedde)
9	Shota Imanaga	CHC	Mon 6/15-COL (Lorenzen)	Sun 6/21-TOR (Cease)
10	Brandon Young	BAL	Tue 6/16-@SEA (Gilbert)	Sun 6/21-@LAD (Sheehan)
11	Logan Gilbert	SEA	Tue 6/16-BAL (Young)
12	Jesus Luzardo	PHI	Tue 6/16-MIA (Phillips)
13	Ryne Nelson	ARI	Mon 6/15-LAA (Urena)	Sun 6/21-MIN (Paredes)
14	Andrew Alvarez	WSH	Mon 6/15-KC (Spence)	Sun 6/21-@TB (Martinez)
15	Dustin May	STL	Mon 6/15-SD (Giolito)	Sun 6/21-@KC (Lugo)
16	Shohei Ohtani	LAD	Wed 6/17-TB (McClanahan)
17	Davis Martin	CWS	Tue 6/16-@NYY (Cole)	Sun 6/21-@DET (Verlander)
18	Bryan Woo	SEA	Thu 6/18-BAL (Baz)
19	Hunter Brown	HOU	Tue 6/16-DET (Valdez)
20	Jacob Misiorowski	MIL	Fri 6/19-@ATL (Sale)
21	Logan Webb	SF	Sat 6/20-@MIA (Gusto)
22	Tarik Skubal	DET	Fri 6/19-CWS (Rock)
23	Chris Sale	ATL	Fri 6/19-MIL (Misiorowski)
24	Joe Ryan	MIN	Thu 6/18-@TEX (Leiter)
25	Nolan McLean	NYM	Wed 6/17-@CIN (Lodolo)
26	Reid Detmers	LAA	Tue 6/16-@ARI (Kelly)	Sun 6/21-@ATH (Perkins)
27	Carlos Rodon	NYY	Wed 6/17-CWS (Kay)
28	Connelly Early	BOS	Sat 6/20-@SEA (Castillo)
29	Ian Seymour	TB	Sat 6/20-WSH (Mikolas)
30	Peter Lambert	HOU	Wed 6/17-DET (Mize)
31	Nick Martinez	TB	Mon 6/15-@LAD (Lauer)	Sun 6/21-WSH (Alvarez)
32	Adrian Houser	SF	Tue 6/16-@ATL (Holmes)	Sun 6/21-@MIA (Phillips)
33	Bryce Miller	SEA	Fri 6/19-BOS (Suarez)
34	Spencer Arrighetti	HOU	Sun 6/21-CLE (Cecconi)
35	George Kirby	SEA	Wed 6/17-BAL (Bradish)
36	Jacob deGrom	TEX	Fri 6/19-SD (Vasquez)
37	Cam Schlittler	NYY	Fri 6/19-CIN (Lowder)
38	Luis Castillo	SEA	Sat 6/20-BOS (Early)
39	Will Warren	NYY	Sat 6/20-CIN (Abbott)
40	Michael Soroka	ARI	Fri 6/19-MIN (Prielipp)
41	Ranger Suarez	BOS	Fri 6/19-@SEA (Miller)
42	Nathan Eovaldi	TEX	Sat 6/20-SD (Buehler)
43	Michael King	SD	Tue 6/16-@STL (Pallante)
44	MacKenzie Gore	TEX	Mon 6/15-MIN (Paredes)	Sun 6/21-SD (Giolito)
45	Andrew Abbott	CIN	Sat 6/20-@NYY (Warren)
46	Max Meyer	MIA	Fri 6/19-SF (McDonald)
47	Drew Rasmussen	TB	Tue 6/16-@LAD (Wrobleski)
48	Kevin Gausman	TOR	Fri 6/19-@CHC (Brown)
49	Sean Manaea	NYM	Thu 6/18-@PHI (Nola)
50	Roki Sasaki	LAD	Fri 6/19-BAL (Gibson)
51	Ryan Weathers	NYY	Thu 6/18-CWS (Burke)
52	Tyler Phillips	MIA	Tue 6/16-@PHI (Luzardo)	Sun 6/21-SF (Houser)
53	Shane Baz	BAL	Thu 6/18-@SEA (Woo)
54	Framber Valdez	DET	Tue 6/16-@HOU (Brown)
55	Slade Cecconi	CLE	Tue 6/16-@MIL (Gasser)	Sun 6/21-@HOU (Arrighetti)
56	Tanner Bibee	CLE	Fri 6/19-@HOU (Imai)
57	Anthony Kay	CWS	Wed 6/17-@NYY (Rodon)
58	Freddy Peralta	NYM	Sat 6/20-@PHI (Sanchez)
59	Foster Griffin	WSH	Tue 6/16-KC (Wacha)
60	Merrill Kelly	ARI	Tue 6/16-LAA (Detmers)
61	Cade Cavalli	WSH	Fri 6/19-@TB (Jax)
62	Emmet Sheehan	LAD	Sun 6/21-BAL (Young)
63	Sean Burke	CWS	Thu 6/18-@NYY (Weathers)
64	Paul Skenes	PIT	Sat 6/20-@COL (Sugano)
65	Trevor McDonald	SF	Fri 6/19-@MIA (Meyer)
66	Mike Burrows	HOU	Sat 6/20-CLE (Cantillo)
67	Lucas Giolito	SD	Mon 6/15-@STL (May)	Sun 6/21-@TEX (Gore)
68	Walbert Urena	LAA	Mon 6/15-@ARI (Nelson)	Sat 6/20-@ATH (Ginn)
69	Kai-Wei Teng	HOU	Mon 6/15-DET (Melton)
70	Grant Holmes	ATL	Tue 6/16-SF (Houser)	Sun 6/21-MIL (Woodruff)
71	Jonah Tong	NYM	Sun 6/21-@PHI (Wheeler)
72	Casey Mize	DET	Wed 6/17-@HOU (Lambert)
73	Ben Brown	CHC	Fri 6/19-TOR (Gausman)
74	Robert Gasser	MIL	Tue 6/16-CLE (Cecconi)
75	Edward Cabrera	CHC	Tue 6/16-COL (Feltner)
76	Aaron Nola	PHI	Thu 6/18-NYM (Manaea)
77	Sandy Alcantara	MIA	Wed 6/17-@PHI (Painter)
78	Parker Messick	CLE	Thu 6/18-@MIL (Drohan)
79	Kyle Bradish	BAL	Wed 6/17-@SEA (Kirby)
80	Taj Bradley	MIN	Sat 6/20-@ARI (Gallen)
81	Trey Gibson	BAL	Fri 6/19-@LAD (Sasaki)
82	Kyle Harrison	MIL	Sat 6/20-@ATL (Elder)
83	Noah Cameron	KC	Thu 6/18-STL (Liberatore)
84	Jack Leiter	TEX	Thu 6/18-MIN (Ryan)
85	Trevor Rogers	BAL	Sat 6/20-@LAD (Yamamoto)
86	Tatsuya Imai	HOU	Fri 6/19-CLE (Bibee)
87	Emerson Hancock	SEA	Sun 6/21-BOS (Tolle)
88	Griffin Jax	TB	Fri 6/19-WSH (Cavalli)
89	JR Ritchie	ATL	Wed 6/17-SF (Ray)
90	Justin Wrobleski	LAD	Tue 6/16-TB (Rasmussen)
91	Trey Yesavage	TOR	Thu 6/18-@BOS (Gray)
92	Robbie Ray	SF	Wed 6/17-@ATL (Ritchie)
93	Kumar Rocker	TEX	Tue 6/16-MIN (Matthews)
94	Gavin Williams	CLE	Wed 6/17-@MIL (Sproat)
95	Landen Roupp	SF	Thu 6/18-@ATL (Perez)
96	Brady Singer	CIN	Tue 6/16-NYM (TBD)
97	Rhett Lowder	CIN	Fri 6/19-@NYY (Schlittler)
98	Brandon Sproat	MIL	Wed 6/17-CLE (Williams)
99	Zebby Matthews	MIN	Tue 6/16-@TEX (Rocker)
100	Shane Drohan	MIL	Thu 6/18-CLE (Messick)
101	Griffin Canning	SD	Wed 6/17-@STL (Leahy)
102	Shane McClanahan	TB	Wed 6/17-@LAD (Ohtani)
103	Andre Pallante	STL	Tue 6/16-SD (King)
104	Michael McGreevy	STL	Fri 6/19-@KC (Kolek)
105	Eric Lauer	LAD	Mon 6/15-TB (Martinez)
106	Justin Verlander	DET	Sun 6/21-CWS (Martin)
107	J.T. Ginn	ATH	Mon 6/15-PIT (Jones)	Sat 6/20-LAA (Urena)
108	Ryan Gusto	MIA	Mon 6/15-@PHI (Wheeler)	Sat 6/20-SF (Webb)
109	Eduardo Rodriguez	ARI	Wed 6/17-LAA (Aldegheri)
110	Andrew Painter	PHI	Wed 6/17-MIA (Alcantara)
111	Michael Wacha	KC	Tue 6/16-@WSH (Griffin)
112	Zac Gallen	ARI	Sat 6/20-MIN (Bradley)
113	Stephen Kolek	KC	Fri 6/19-STL (McGreevy)
114	Brandon Woodruff	MIL	Sun 6/21-@ATL (Holmes)
115	Tobias Myers	NYM	Mon 6/15-@CIN (Burns)
116	Joey Cantillo	CLE	Sat 6/20-@HOU (Burrows)
117	Jack Perkins	ATH	Tue 6/16-PIT (Keller)	Sun 6/21-LAA (Detmers)
118	Martin Perez	ATL	Thu 6/18-SF (Roupp)
119	Miles Mikolas	WSH	Sat 6/20-@TB (Seymour)
120	Javier Assad	CHC	Wed 6/17-COL (Sullivan)
121	Patrick Corbin	TOR	Sat 6/20-@CHC (Rea)
122	Michael Paredes	MIN	Mon 6/15-@TEX (Gore)	Sun 6/21-@ARI (Nelson)
123	Kyle Leahy	STL	Wed 6/17-SD (Canning)
124	Nick Lodolo	CIN	Wed 6/17-NYM (McLean)
125	Colin Rea	CHC	Sat 6/20-TOR (Corbin)
126	Sonny Gray	BOS	Thu 6/18-TOR (Yesavage)
127	Seth Lugo	KC	Sun 6/21-STL (May)
128	Sean Sullivan	COL	Wed 6/17-@CHC (Assad)
129	Connor Prielipp	MIN	Fri 6/19-@ARI (Soroka)
130	Erick Fedde	CWS	Sat 6/20-@DET (Melton)
131	Zack Littell	WSH	Wed 6/17-KC (Avila)
132	Ryan Feltner	COL	Tue 6/16-@CHC (Cabrera)
133	Bryce Elder	ATL	Sat 6/20-MIL (Harrison)
134	Braxton Ashcraft	PIT	Wed 6/17-@ATH (Civale)
135	Sam Aldegheri	LAA	Wed 6/17-@ARI (Rodriguez)
136	Randy Vasquez	SD	Fri 6/19-@TEX (deGrom)
137	Joe Rock	CWS	Fri 6/19-@DET (Skubal)
138	Mitch Spence	KC	Mon 6/15-@WSH (Alvarez)
139	Max Scherzer	TOR	Wed 6/17-@BOS (Bennett)
140	Luinder Avila	KC	Wed 6/17-@WSH (Littell)
141	Walker Buehler	SD	Sat 6/20-@TEX (Eovaldi)
142	Matthew Liberatore	STL	Thu 6/18-@KC (Cameron)
143	Gage Jump	ATH	Thu 6/18-LAA (Soriano)
144	Jake Bennett	BOS	Wed 6/17-TOR (Scherzer)
145	Bubba Chandler	PIT	Fri 6/19-@COL (Freeland)
146	Jose Soriano	LAA	Thu 6/18-@ATH (Jump)
147	Mitch Keller	PIT	Tue 6/16-@ATH (Perkins)
148	Jeffrey Springs	ATH	Fri 6/19-LAA (Rodriguez)
149	Jared Jones	PIT	Mon 6/15-@ATH (Ginn)	Sun 6/21-@COL (Lorenzen)
150	Michael Lorenzen	COL	Mon 6/15-@CHC (Imanaga)	Sun 6/21-PIT (Jones)
151	Aaron Civale	ATH	Wed 6/17-PIT (Ashcraft)
152	Grayson Rodriguez	LAA	Fri 6/19-@ATH (Springs)
153	Kyle Freeland	COL	Fri 6/19-PIT (Chandler)
154	Tomoyuki Sugano	COL	Sat 6/20-PIT (Skenes)

Hitter ratings

Week 12: June 15-21

Overall		LHB		RHB		SB
Pirates	10.0	Pirates	10.0	Pirates	9.5	Rangers	9.0
Angels	8.8	Rangers	8.9	Angels	8.4	Yankees	8.9
Athletics	8.1	Angels	8.9	Diamondbacks	8.3	Tigers	8.7
Diamondbacks	7.4	Athletics	8.6	Athletics	8.0	Dodgers	8.7
Rangers	7.3	Twins	7.6	Nationals	7.6	Giants	8.5
Royals	7.1	Royals	7.3	Dodgers	7.3	Red Sox	7.5
Cubs	6.5	Padres	6.7	Royals	6.8	Blue Jays	7.0
Nationals	6.4	Cubs	6.5	Cubs	6.6	Nationals	7.0
Twins	6.2	Red Sox	6.5	Brewers	6.4	Mariners	6.7
Reds	5.9	Guardians	6.5	Rangers	6.3	Cubs	6.5