The match ups and data you see below were pulled Friday afternoon. 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.

Drew Hutchison’s fastball command has been inconsistent this year. In his last start it was extremely sharp, but in the start prior to that it was extremely loose. I was high on him entering the year and when evaluating a pitcher who has been inconsistent I fall back on my initial assessment of him entering the year.

Shane Greene got lit up by the Indians Friday night and I’m not surprised. In my first write-up on Greene I had major questions about his ability to get lefties out (to be fair I was a little optimistic because of how the changeup looked). Greene continues to be a streaming option in mixed formats. This week he gets the Twins and he lit them up in his first start.

I may be overly optimistic about Trevor Bauer, but he has gotten better in each start and he’s striking out 34 percent of the batters he’s faced. The Blue Jays matchup isn’t very appealing but I have no idea if Jose Bautista will play or not. If he is playing I would drop Bauer down a few spots.

Brandon McCarthy has pitched great, but he’s been unlucky with the BABIP and the HR/FB rate. Like Bauer he’s striking nearly 35 percent of the batters he’s facing. When evaluating pitchers this early into the season I want to start the pitcher who is missing bats and limiting walks.

A couple of days ago I wrote about why I’m still buying Jason Hammel. If you watch his last start only two of the 5-6 hits he allowed were hard hit. He’s still missing bats and positive regression should occur.

C.J. Wilson will always be a high risk, high reward pitcher, but this week he faces a Giants team that cannot score runs and most importantly, the game is in San Francisco. He was dealing with elbow stiffness, but it looks like it’s a minor injury.

I watched Drew Smyly’s 2015 debut and I was very impressed with the raw stuff and his command. He had the look of a pitcher who was in mid-season form. He doesn’t have overpowering stuff so he’s going to need really good command to get hitters out. And for the first three innings he had great command of all of his pitches, but in the fourth he got a little loose and the Blue Jays pounced. Since he had a pitch count of 80 he wasn’t able to finish the fifth inning and get the win, but going into his next start the pitch count should increase.