Fantasy Baseball Week 16 Preview: Top sleeper pitchers for both three-game week include Martin Perez

The first scoring period back from the All-Star break is a source of disagreement throughout the Fantasy Baseball world. It begins on a Monday rather than a Friday, which forces commissioners into an awkward choice between a scoring period that’s much too short and one that’s much too long.

The CBS default is the former. Why prolong the awkwardness when you can knock it out in one weekend and start fresh Monday? There are downsides, though, and one is that not every starting pitcher gets a turn in a three-day scoring period. It makes a list such as this one all the more useful. Chances are you’ll need some help filling out your starting lineup.

• Week 16 Sleeper Hitters

On the other hand, not every team is so forthright with its rotation plans coming out of the break, leaving us to guess in some cases which pitchers will be starting on those three days. Naturally, probable pitchers are never more than probable, but they’re something less than probable this week, with the break affording every team a chance to reset its rotation as it sees fit.

Of course, the further out we have to speculate, the less accurate that speculation will be, so relying on streamer recommendations for the longer 10-day scoring period is even more fraught. I’ll offer some regardless, but what you have to recognize with an extended scoring period is that most pitchers line up for two starts, which means there’s even less incentive to stream than usual.

I’ll begin with some recommendations for the CBS default of a three-game scoring period. As usual, my choices are limited to those rostered in less than 80 percent of leagues.