Saturday's Fantasy Baseball Pitching Streamers: Does Kyle Hendricks Still Have Anything Left in the Tank?

Oh, sweet weekend: you are here at last! Even with a short week after Memorial Day, the weekend hits hard when you work the normal Monday-Friday slog. We're not meant to live like that; everybody, plan to revolt! Until that time, though, we can keep plugging away, especially during a long fantasy baseball season.

Let's look at five starting pitchers in action on Saturday who are widely available in fantasy leagues and have good matchups. Most stats are from MLB.com, as are the probable starters. The full streamer rankings are listed at the bottom.

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Edward Cabrera, Miami Marlins vs. San Francisco Giants

The Giants are just a fringe target team, but they make the list today for two reasons. The first is that we don't have a lot of other good streaming options, and Cabrera fits the bill. The second is that San Francisco has been ice cold offensively over the past two weeks, ranking in the bottom 10 in essentially every offensive stat over that time. From May 9-28, San Fran went 7-11, getting swept by the Twins and Tigers to bookend that stretch.

Cabrera is a really good strikeout pitcher, but he also walks way too many guys. A pitcher can succeed with that profile if he is elite with strikeouts (or if he just gets lucky), but Cabrera has felt the effects the past few seasons, finishing with an ERA near 5.00 last year and holding a similar number in 2025. Putting less guys on base would help his cause.

Cabrera is a low- to mid-level streamer. The matchup is just OK, and Cabrera hasn't set the world on fire, but his strikeout work is good enough to prop him up a half-notch.

Colton Gordon, Houston Astros vs. Tampa Bay Rays

Gordon has thrown just 14.2 big league innings, all this season. He has struck out 14 batters while just walking just two, but Gordon has also been hit hard, giving up 19 hits and nine runs in that time. He was a good strikeout pitcher in the minors, so we can probably expect that to continue at least at an average level, but Gordon will have to show more run and hit prevention to become a pitcher we can trust in fantasy. The small sample right now makes it hard to get a good read.

Tampa Bay is more of a fringe target, ranking below average in many offensive areas but sitting closer to average than the bottom of the league in many stats. The Rays rank between 15th and 21st in runs, hits, doubles, home runs, walks, strikeouts, and all four slash categories. They are regularly mediocre-to-below-average across the board.

Gordon is a low-level streamer. The strikeouts might be real, but he just doesn't have enough of a track record to know what to expect, and the matchup is just OK, not setting Gordon up for a big day.

Kyle Hendricks, Los Angeles Angels @ Cleveland Guardians

I thought Hendricks was done. He pitched at a Cy-Young level for the Cubs through the COVID season of 2020 but has mostly been untenable since then. His walks have always been good, but Hendricks's strikeout rate tanked beginning in 2021, when his ERA also ballooned. After making a ton of money and turning 35 in December, I thought Hendricks would retire after having pitched for only one team.

The Angels inexplicably gave him $2.5 million early in free agency, though, so Hendricks is making another go of it in Southern California; he nearly has a career-low strikeout rate and career-high walk rate, and Hendricks has an ERA over 5.00 (that number has been less than 4.77 just once since 2021).

Cleveland is a team worth targeting due to their ineptitude across the board. They hit some home runs, which is valuable, but they fail in pretty much every other offensive box stat, regularly ranking in the bottom 10. The Guardians are a surprise daily target in the first half of 2025.

Hendricks is a low-level streamer. I can't recommend him against any team given his performance, both this year and over the past five.

Dean Kremer, Baltimore Orioles vs. Chicago White Sox

Davis Martin, Chicago White Sox @ Baltimore Orioles

Here, we have the two teams with the worst records in the American League facing off in a battle of futility. The Orioles won yesterday 2-1; both starting pitchers (Sean Burke and Zach Eflin) went at least six innings with at least six strikeouts and no more than two runs allowed (Eflin went seven scoreless). These are two of our best matchups right now, and they are creating a vortex of fantasy value that savvy owners can take advantage of.

Kremer is generally decent with strikeouts, but he's another guy who has seen that number drop in 2025. He has a 16.6% K rate, only the second time it has been lower than 19% in six years. That has been part of his struggles, as Kremer has an ERA over 5.00 and allowed 69 hits in 61 innings.

Martin is good with walks but is another below-average strikeout pitcher. He has had good results this season, allowing just 24 earned runs in 62.2 innings, but Martin is also about to surpass his career high in innings, so it's worth watching to see if he begins feeling the effects, especially after the All-Star break. His strikeout rate this year is also a perilously low 14.6% (versus league average around 22% and his career rate of 17.7%).

Both Kremer and Martin are low- to mid-level streamers today. The matchups are right, as both the Orioles and White Sox are among the worst offensive teams in baseball, but I can't expect big things from either; their ceilings are capped.

Saturday's Streamer Rankings

1. Edward Cabrera, MIA
2. Dean Kremer, BAL
3. Davis Martin, CWS
4. Colton Gordon, HOU
5. Kyle Hendricks, LAA