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Fantasy Baseball Forecaster: May 16-22
Set your lineups for the week ahead with our forecaster, featuring pitcher rankings, two-start pitchers, hitter ratings and more.


FANTASY BASEBALL NEWS

LOOKING AHEAD TO MONDAY
Fantasy baseball pitcher rankings, lineup advice for Monday's MLB games
Everything you need to know to place your MLB bets and set your fantasy baseball lineups for Monday, May 16.

SHOHEI STAYS HOT
Ohtani goes up to crush this 425-foot dinger

HUNTER GREENE DOMINANT
Reds lose to Pirates despite surrendering no hits

FANTASY BASEBALL
Fantasy prospects: Eight catcher situations to watch
With catcher production off to a slow start leaguewide, Eric Karabell has his eye on catcher prospects who could see time in the majors soon.
Don't drop your catcher just yet!
The 2022 MLB season has been a frustrating one for backstops, but Tristan dives into the numbers to explain how fantasy baseball players should approach this stretch.

ANSWERING THE KERSHAW Q'S
Dodgers should play it safe with Clayton Kershaw

CHECK YOUR BULLPEN
Fantasy baseball closer watch: Bard chooses 'not to BB'
Eric Karabell takes his weekly look at the rising and falling fantasy stock of relievers around the league, including the surprising good fortune of Daniel Bard in Colorado.

FANTASY BASEBALL
Rest-of-season rankings: Major movers at first base in the NL Central
Eric Karabell makes more changes to his rankings, including a lot of ups and downs among the first basemen in the NL Central.
Manny Machado is rising up fantasy roto rankings

CHECKING IN ON ROOKIES
Fantasy baseball rookie report: Go get Jhoan Duran
Eric Karabell rounds up the rookies and prospects making a buzz, including a couple of impressive arms on the Twins' big league roster.
Top Headlines
- Mets put RHP Megill on IL with biceps tendinitis
- 'Couple' Mariners to miss Jays series over vaccine
- Reds become 6th team to not allow hit and lose
- Dodgers' Kershaw misses start after going on IL
- Phils' Harper (UCL tear) can't throw for 4 weeks
- Padres sign veteran Cano to add spark to offense
- Guardians' Naylor put on COVID IL amid outbreak
- Mets move deGrom from 10-day IL to 60-day IL
- Closer depth chart: All the latest moves
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Fantasy baseball dynasty rankings
Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports Fantasy baseball dynasty rankings: Top 300 players for 2022 and beyond
Tristan H. Cockcroft updates his rankings for those playing in dynasty league formats.
Celebrating 40 years of fantasy baseball
Silly Little Game 30 for 30: Silly Little Game
Fantasy sports is a multi-billion dollar industry. Take a look at the game's inception and its "founding fathers," who never foresaw how their creation would take off and ultimately leave them behind. Stream on ESPN+.
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