The match ups and data you see below were pulled Friday morning. The data is for the 2015 season. Please be aware the match ups are subject to change. If you have any questions about the rankings hit me up Twitter @MattCommins

These are rankings for the entire week so I give the edge to a lot of fantasy pitchers who pitch twice. Also, the rankings are based on traditional 5×5 categories. I also provide write-ups for a few pitchers. My hope is after you read them you have a better understanding of why I ranked them.

I was light with the pitcher analysis this week because I’m writing DFS pitcher rankings every day and I feel like I would just be repeating myself. My DFS rankings actually provide good write-ups about how well/poorly a pitcher is performing in general. Check out my Twitter account for links to my DFS rankings for the past few days.

This week marks the return of two pitchers  from TJ surgeries (Jose Fernandez and Matt Moore) and two established pitchers (Matt Cain and Ervin Santana) making their Major League debut. In general I’m very cautious with pitchers coming off injury. I prefer to take a wait and see approach before I start them. Odds are if you own Fernandez you’re going to use him because his upside is extremely high and if you’ve waited this long it’s too tempting to leave him on the bench.

I wrote a full write-up on Andrew Heaney’s 2015 Major League debut.

The reason why I have A.J. Burnett rated so low because he’s facing the Tigers and it looks like Victor Martinez could be back to his 2014 (albeit in a very small sample size). The reason for the “low” rank is due to the lack of upside. Odds are he’ll provide a quality start, but there’s a big opportunity for a blow up start where he gives up more than five runs.