Fantasy Baseball Forecaster for Week 17: July 27-A...

A busy week lies head for fantasy baseball managers. Half of the 30 teams are scheduled for seven games during Week 17, although one team, the Colorado Rockies , draws the short end of the stick with only five. The New York Yankees take a seven-game trip to the city of Chicago, where they'll face a pair of current playoff teams. The Yankees first face the Chicago White Sox , the AL Central leaders, for four games at Rate Field before playing the Chicago Cubs , the NL's top Wild Card team, for three games at Wrigley Field. Max Fried , the Yankees' Opening Day starter, is aligned for two starts, his second and third since returning from a more than two-month stay on the IL for an elbow injury. Incidentally, Fried is a perfect 4-for-4 winning his career starts at Wrigley with a 1.38 ERA in those outings. Yankees-Cubs isn't the only interleague matchup among the weekend's highlights. The red-hot Boston Red Sox , back in the AL Wild Card race (if not the AL East race as well) pay a three-game visit to Dodger Stadium to play the Los Angeles Dodgers , baseball's winningest team. The Dodgers have Justin Wrobleski , an NL All-Star who improved his once-modest strikeout rate to 33.8% across his most-recent three starts, aligned as their two-start pitcher. MLB's annual trade deadline won't arrive until the near-beginning of fantasy's Week 18 (at 6 p.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 3), but deals are likely to begin trickling in during the week ahead. Prepare for significant roster changes, with such notable names as Tarik Skubal , Mason Miller , Luis Arraez , Hunter Goodman and Freddy Peralta on the list of those most rumored to be traded. Lineup lock times Week 17 Date Total games First game time Day games Monday, July 27 12 2:35 PM 1 Tuesday, July 28 15 6:40 PM 0 Wednesday, July 29 15 12:10 PM 7 Thursday, July 30 10 12:10 PM 4 Friday, July 31 15 2:20 PM 1 Saturday, Aug. 1 15 3:07 PM 4 Sunday, Aug. 2 15 1:35 PM 14 Scheduling quirks Week 17: Teams with the most games Total Home vs. LHSP vs. RHSP 15 tied with 7 Athletics 7 Athletics 4 Reds 6 Reds 7 Braves 4 Brewers 6 Mets 7 7 tied with 3 Phillies 6 4 tied with 6 13 tied with 5 Starting pitcher ranks Week 17: July 27-Aug. 2 Rk Pitcher Team 1st Start 2nd Start 1 PHI Mon 7/27-@MIA (Phillips) Sun 8/2-@BAL (Bradish) 2 ATL Tue 7/28-@NYM (Scott) Sun 8/2-WSH (Cavalli) 3 NYY Tue 7/28-@CWS (Kay) Sun 8/2-@CHC (Rea) 4 SD Tue 7/28-COL (Lorenzen) Sun 8/2-SF (Roupp) 5 NYY Mon 7/27-@CWS (Schultz) Sat 8/1-@CHC (Peterson) 6 CIN Mon 7/27-CLE (Cecconi) Sat 8/1-PIT (Keller) 7 MIA Tue 7/28-PHI (Nola) Sun 8/2-@NYM (Holmes) 8 NYM Mon 7/27-ATL (Perez) Sat 8/1-MIA (Phillips) 9 TB Tue 7/28-TEX (Quantrill) Sun 8/2-CWS (Kay) 10 PHI Wed 7/29-@MIA (Gusto) 11 MIN Tue 7/28-KC (Lugo) Sun 8/2-@SEA (Kirby) 12 LAD Tue 7/28-SEA (Castillo) Sun 8/2-BOS (Bennett) 13 TOR Fri 7/31-STL (Pallante) 14 CWS Tue 7/28-NYY (Cole) Sun 8/2-@TB (Jax) 15 LAD Fri 7/31-BOS (Suarez) 16 SF Tue 7/28-MIL (Henderson) Sun 8/2-@SD (King) 17 PHI Sat 8/1-@BAL (Baz) 18 SF Mon 7/27-MIL (Sproat) Sat 8/1-@SD (Buehler) 19 BAL Mon 7/27-@DET (Montero) Sun 8/2-PHI (Wheeler) 20 PIT Tue 7/28-ARI (Pfaadt) Sun 8/2-@CIN (Singer) 21 NYM Thu 7/30-MIA (Perez) 22 SEA Fri 7/31-MIN (Matthews) 23 DET Wed 7/29-BAL (Rogers) 24 CHC Mon 7/27-@STL (Liberatore) Sat 8/1-NYY (Fried) 25 WSH Thu 7/30-@ATL (Elder) 26 SEA Sat 8/1-MIN (Prielipp) 27 MIA Thu 7/30-@NYM (McLean) 28 MIL Mon 7/27-@SF (Mahle) Sun 8/2-@LAA (Urena) 29 NYM Wed 7/29-ATL (Holmes) 30 CWS Mon 7/27-NYY (Fried) Sat 8/1-@TB (Rasmussen) 31 NYY Wed 7/29-@CWS (Martin) 32 SEA Mon 7/27-@TEX (Rocker) Sun 8/2-MIN (Bradley) 33 HOU Fri 7/31-TEX (Montgomery) 34 HOU Mon 7/27-@LAA (Urena) Sun 8/2-TEX (Rocker) 35 PIT Thu 7/30-@CIN (Greene) 36 TEX Mon 7/27-SEA (Kirby) Sun 8/2-@HOU (Imai) 37 TEX Sat 8/1-@HOU (Blanco) 38 CIN Tue 7/28-CLE (Williams) Sun 8/2-PIT (Chandler) 39 CIN Thu 7/30-PIT (Skenes) 40 TEX Thu 7/30-@TB (McClanahan) 41 TB Wed 7/29-TEX (Gore) 42 NYM Fri 7/31-MIA (Junk) 43 BOS Tue 7/28-@ATH (Jump) Sun 8/2-@LAD (Wrobleski) 44 WSH Mon 7/27-TOR (Scherzer) Sat 8/1-@ATL (Perez) 45 MIL Wed 7/29-@SF (Webb) 46 WSH Tue 7/28-TOR (Bieber) Sun 8/2-@ATL (Sale) 47 ATL Mon 7/27-@NYM (Thornton) Sat 8/1-WSH (Alvarez) 48 BOS Mon 7/27-@ATH (Perkins) Sat 8/1-@LAD (Sheehan) 49 LAD Sat 8/1-BOS (Tolle) 50 TOR Sat 8/1-STL (Leahy) 51 ARI Mon 7/27-@PIT (Keller) Sun 8/2-@CLE (Cecconi) 52 LAA Mon 7/27-HOU (Imai) Sun 8/2-MIL (Sproat) 53 SF Wed 7/29-MIL (Drohan) 54 TB Sat 8/1-CWS (Schultz) 55 CHC Tue 7/28-@STL (Dobbins) Sun 8/2-NYY (Cole) 56 CWS Thu 7/30-NYY (Weathers) 57 NYY Thu 7/30-@CWS (Burke) 58 CHC Thu 7/30-@STL (May) 59 NYM Tue 7/28-ATL (Sale) 60 CHC Wed 7/29-@STL (McGreevy) 61 TB Thu 7/30-TEX (Eovaldi) 62 MIL Sat 8/1-@LAA (Soriano) 63 BOS Fri 7/31-@LAD (Yamamoto) 64 DET Tue 7/28-BAL (Kremer) 65 MIN Wed 7/29-KC (Dobnak) 66 STL Mon 7/27-CHC (Peterson) Sun 8/2-@TOR (Scherzer) 67 COL Wed 7/29-@SD (Canning) 68 NYM Sun 8/2-MIA (Alcantara) 69 SF Thu 7/30-@SD (Marquez) 70 ATL Wed 7/29-@NYM (Manaea) 71 MIL Tue 7/28-@SF (Roupp) 72 TB Fri 7/31-CWS (Fedde) 73 SEA Thu 7/30-@LAD (Sasaki) 74 MIA Fri 7/31-@NYM (Peralta) 75 STL Wed 7/29-CHC (Boyd) 76 HOU Tue 7/28-@LAA (Detmers) 77 PIT Fri 7/31-@CIN (Abbott) 78 PIT Mon 7/27-ARI (Kelly) Sat 8/1-@CIN (Burns) 79 CLE Tue 7/28-@CIN (Singer) 80 CLE Sat 8/1-ARI (Drake) 81 STL Tue 7/28-CHC (Rea) 82 TOR Mon 7/27-@WSH (Alvarez) Sun 8/2-STL (Liberatore) 83 SEA Tue 7/28-@LAD (Wrobleski) 84 TEX Wed 7/29-@TB (Seymour) 85 BAL Wed 7/29-@DET (Skubal) 86 TOR Wed 7/29-@WSH (Littell) 87 BAL Fri 7/31-PHI (Keller) 88 CLE Fri 7/31-ARI (Bratt) 89 CIN Fri 7/31-PIT (Ashcraft) 90 SF Fri 7/31-@SD (Sears) 91 CLE Mon 7/27-@CIN (Burns) Sun 8/2-ARI (Kelly) 92 KC Thu 7/30-@MIN (Ober) 93 DET Mon 7/27-BAL (Bradish) Sun 8/2-@ATH (Jump) 94 STL Thu 7/30-CHC (Imanaga) 95 MIL Fri 7/31-@LAA (Johnson) 96 HOU Sat 8/1-TEX (deGrom) 97 PIT Wed 7/29-ARI (Rodriguez) 98 BAL Sat 8/1-PHI (Sanchez) 99 LAD Thu 7/30-SEA (Miller) 100 PHI Tue 7/28-@MIA (Alcantara) 101 LAD Wed 7/29-SEA (Hancock) 102 BAL Tue 7/28-@DET (Melton) 103 MIN Thu 7/30-KC (Cameron) 104 MIN Fri 7/31-@SEA (Woo) 105 STL Fri 7/31-@TOR (Cease) 106 CWS Wed 7/29-NYY (Schlittler) 107 LAA Tue 7/28-HOU (Lambert) 108 TOR Tue 7/28-@WSH (Cavalli) 109 STL Sat 8/1-@TOR (Gausman) 110 MIA Wed 7/29-PHI (Luzardo) 111 ARI Tue 7/28-@PIT (Chandler) 112 MIN Sat 8/1-@SEA (Gilbert) 113 NYY Fri 7/31-@CHC (Taillon) 114 ATL Fri 7/31-WSH (Mikolas) 115 CLE Wed 7/29-@CIN (Lowder) 116 LAA Sat 8/1-MIL (Misiorowski) 117 COL Tue 7/28-@SD (King) 118 SD Sat 8/1-SF (Mahle) 119 SD Fri 7/31-SF (Whisenhunt) 120 MIA Mon 7/27-PHI (Wheeler) Sat 8/1-@NYM (Thornton) 121 WSH Wed 7/29-TOR (Yesavage) 122 KC Tue 7/28-@MIN (Bradley) Sun 8/2-@COL (Freeland) 123 CHC Fri 7/31-NYY (Warren) 124 ARI Wed 7/29-@PIT (Jones) 125 ATH Mon 7/27-BOS (Tolle) Sat 8/1-DET (Valdez) 126 SD Wed 7/29-COL (Hughes) 127 TEX Tue 7/28-@TB (Jax) 128 HOU Wed 7/29-@LAA (Rodriguez) 129 ARI Fri 7/31-@CLE (Bibee) 130 LAA Fri 7/31-MIL (Gasser) 131 TEX Fri 7/31-@HOU (Brown) 132 KC Wed 7/29-@MIN (Ryan) 133 PHI Fri 7/31-@BAL (Young) 134 ATL Thu 7/30-WSH (Griffin) 135 ARI Sat 8/1-@CLE (Messick) 136 SEA Wed 7/29-@LAD (Lauer) 137 CWS Fri 7/31-@TB (Martinez) 138 DET Fri 7/31-@ATH (Springs) 139 SD Thu 7/30-SF (Ray) 140 BOS Thu 7/30-@ATH (Barnett) 141 DET Sat 8/1-@ATH (Perkins) 142 LAA Wed 7/29-HOU (Wesneski) 143 CIN Wed 7/29-CLE (Cantillo) 144 WSH Fri 7/31-@ATL (Lopez) 145 ATH Tue 7/28-BOS (Bennett) Sun 8/2-DET (Montero) 146 ATH Wed 7/29-BOS (Sandoval) 147 BOS Wed 7/29-@ATH (Lopez) 148 ATH Thu 7/30-BOS (Gray) 149 KC Sat 8/1-@COL (Feltner) 150 KC Fri 7/31-@COL (Sugano) 151 ATH Fri 7/31-DET (Mize) 152 COL Sun 8/2-KC (Lugo) 153 COL Sat 8/1-KC (Avila) 154 COL Fri 7/31-KC (Wacha) Hitter ratings Week 17: July 27-Aug. 2 Overall LHB RHB SB Royals 10.0 Guardians 10.0 Red Sox 9.8 Red Sox 10.0 Yankees 9.0 Royals 10.0 Yankees 9.8 White Sox 10.0 Mariners 8.5 Mariners 10.0 Braves 9.4 Tigers 10.0 Red Sox 7.8 Reds 8.8 Royals 9.1 Mets 10.0 Pirates 7.8 Blue Jays 8.3 Mariners 7.6 Phillies 10.0 Blue Jays 7.3 Pirates 8.0 Blue Jays 7.4 Rangers 10.0 Giants 7.2 Giants 7.5 Giants 7.4 Nationals 10.0 Braves 7.0 Phillies 7.2 Padres 7.4 Mariners 8.3 Guardians 6.9 Yankees 6.6 Rockies 7.3 Yankees 8.2 Reds 6.8 Red Sox 6.3 Nationals 7.3 Blue Jays 8.1