Fantasy Baseball Forecaster for Week 2: April 6-12

Tristan H. CockcroftApr 5, 2026, 01:57 PM ET
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With most teams having completed two full rotation turns over the season's first week and a half, it's the aces who lead the two-start pitcher list for fantasy's Week 2.

Opening Day starters Sandy Alcantara, Tanner Bibee, Zac Gallen, Freddy Peralta, Kevin Gausman, Logan Gilbert, Nick Pivetta, Joe Ryan, Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal all project for two-start weeks and dominate the weekly pitching rankings.

Lineup lock times

Week 2

Date	Total games	First game time	Day games
Monday, April 6	13	4:10 PM	1
Tuesday, April 7	15	6:10 PM	0
Wednesday, April 8	15	12:35 PM	10
Thursday, April 9	6	12:10 PM	3
Friday, April 10	15	2:20 PM	1
Saturday, April 11	15	1:05 PM	7
Sunday, April 12	15	1:35 PM	14

Scheduling quirks

Week 2: Teams with the most games

Total		Home		vs. LHSP		vs. RHSP
8 tied with	7	Mets	6	Guardians	4	Reds	7
		Rays	6	White Sox	4	Rockies	7
		Blue Jays	6	Braves	3	Tigers	7
		4 tied with	4	Angels	3	4 tied with	6
				Marlins	3
				Twins	3

Starting pitcher ranks

Week 2: April 6-12

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

Hitter ratings

Week 2: April 6-12

Overall		LHB		RHB		SB
Rockies	10.0	White Sox	10.0	Rockies	10.0	Tigers	10.0
Cardinals	9.8	Cardinals	10.0	Cardinals	9.3	Royals	9.5
Braves	7.8	Rockies	9.3	Braves	8.6	Reds	9.3
Orioles	7.6	Padres	8.5	Phillies	8.5	Cubs	8.3
Phillies	7.5	Brewers	7.9	Orioles	6.7	Brewers	6.6
White Sox	7.2	Orioles	7.7	Cubs	6.5	Yankees	6.3