We’ve made it. It’s the final week of the MLB season and the final week of the fantasy baseball season! Well, some leagues may have already wrapped things up — congrats to those league champions! — but some leagues play down to the wire. I am back with fantasy baseball streaming pitchers!
For those still playing, here are three starting pitchers slated to make two starts in the final week of the season.
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Fantasy Baseball Playoffs Streaming: 3 Two-Start Pitchers (9/25 – 10/1)
Kenta Maeda (MIN) – Tuesday vs. OAK, Sunday @ COL – 52% Rostered
Maeda is rostered in more than half of leagues, but he needs to be rostered in any league still playing this week.
The Twins starter has allowed three earned runs or fewer in 15 of his last 16 starts. He is 6-3 with a 3.38 ERA (32 ER in 85 IP) in that span with 98 strikeouts and 23 walks.
Maeda gets an easy start against the Athletics on Tuesday and is slated to start the Twins’ final game of the season on Sunday. A Coors Field matchup is never easy, but Maeda has a good enough first matchup and is a safe enough option this week.
Reese Olson (DET) – Tuesday vs. KC, Sunday* vs. CLE – 28% Rostered
Tigers righthander Reese Olson has been sneaky good over the past few weeks. He’s thrown four straight quality starts — a win in three of them –, including six innings of one-run ball against the Dodgers last time out. He struck out five in the win in Los Angeles.
Olson will start on Tuesday against the lowly Royals and should be able to pick up a quality start and, hopefully, a victory.
His start on Sunday is more up in the air, however, but if the Tigers go with a five-man rotation, it should be Olson on the bump to close out the season. Either way, Olson is a fantastic option for Tuesday vs. KC.
Paul Blackburn (OAK) – Tuesday @ MIN, Sunday @ LAA – 13% Rostered)
A lot of aces are going early in the week, and a lot of pitchers aren’t going to make two starts. Blackburn falls in neither of those categories and is worth a look this week.
The Athletics starter has brought his ERA down to a somewhat respectable 4.11 after a season-worst 5.48 in July. In his last 11 starts, Blackburn has allowed 20 ER in 58 IP (3.10 ERA).
Six of those earned runs came in a total of six innings this month in Texas and Houston. So, if we are able to cherry-pick stats here a bit, he has a 2.42 ERA since July 22nd when not pitching on the road against two of the best in the AL West.
Blackburn isn’t exciting, but he also shouldn’t blow up in your face. He’ll keep the earned runs low while contributing a handful of strikeouts. Hopefully, he’ll be able to steal a win.
