Monday June 9 Fantasy Baseball Pitching Streamers: Can Miami's Eury Perez Come Up Big with a Great Matchup?
Four starting pitchers in action on Monday who are widely available in fantasy leagues and have (somewhat) good matchups.
It's another Monday with a light schedule: we have only nine games on the docket, meaning more than one-third of teams and players are off today. That makes it tough to build an ideal fantasy lineup, especially if you're counting on finding streamers.
On the pitching streamer front, four of our top six targets are not playing Monday: the White Sox, Rockies, Rangers, and Orioles. That means fewer streaming possibilities but also that we are looking at worse matchups when finding those streamers, having to rely on offenses that are just below average (or better) and not among the worst in baseball.
Let's look at four starting pitchers in action on Monday who are widely available in fantasy leagues and have (somewhat) 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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Brayan Bello, Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Tampa Bay is a fringe target, not a team to go after every day. They rank near the middle in essentially every offensive box stat, not flailing anywhere but also not excelling in any area. They are really only here today because of the short schedule; the Rays are about ready to move off the target list completely.
Bello has been right around average with both walks and strikeouts in his career, but he's been much worse with both rates this year in 46 innings. Bellow has been OK in only giving up 20 earned runs in that time, but with allowing a lot of walks and getting hit a little hard (49 hits allowed), Bello is tipping toward the negative side of things.
Bello is a low-level streamer. His rates haven't been great, and the matchup is middling at best; Bello is mostly here because of the light schedule.
Wade Miley, Cincinnati Reds @ Cleveland Guardians
Miley made just two starts last season before undergoing Tommy John surgery, which also wiped out the beginning of his 2025. He pitched two innings in his season debut on Wednesday and gave up four runs and six hits without any walks or strikeouts. Through his career, Miley has been good with walks but a below-average strikeout pitcher; that seems like a best-case scenario right now in his return from a major injury.
Cleveland has two guys who are really excelling, and it's not a surprise who they are. Jose Ramirez leads the team in runs, hits, doubles, home runs, stolen bases, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS. Steven Kwan is tied for the team lead in doubles (14) and is second in hits, stolen bases, batting average, and on-base percentage. The only other guys even close to doing well are Carlos Santana, who is average at best while occupying first base (the easiest place to find offensive production), and DH Kyle Manzardo, who is second on the team with 11 home runs but isn't doing much else. Everyone else falls well short of playoff-level baseball.
Miley is a low-level streamer. The matchup is decent, but it's hard to expect anything out of him when he's just returning from missing more than an entire year.
Andre Pallante, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Toronto Blue Jays
Pallante is a little worse than average with walks but well below average with strikeouts. He has given up about one hit per inning in his career and has an ERA right around 4.00; Pallante often falls in as a very average pitcher. His lack of strikeouts knocks down his fantasy value a bit, though.
Toronto was more of a target team earlier in the season, and they even had a little fringe time, but they have now moved off our list entirely while hitting better. Like Tampa Bay, they aren't in the bottom 10 in many stats, the way most of our target teams are, and the Blue Jays have excelled even more than the Rays. I'm not excited about going after Toronto anymore; they're another group here simply because of the short schedule.
Pallante is a low-level streamer. The matchup isn't a good one, and Pallante doesn't make up for it by being a high-level pitcher, leaving him a player to skip in most cases today.
Eury Perez, Miami Marlins @ Pittsburgh Pirates
Perez gets the best matchup of the day; Pittsburgh is the only truly putrid offense in action on Monday. Choose an offensive stat, and the Pirates are near the bottom. They have scored the second-fewest runs and hit the second-fewest home runs, and Pittsburgh hitters even set a high ceiling for opposing pitchers, ranking sixth in most batter strikeouts. This is a unit to attack every day.
Perez threw his first 91 1/3 big league innings in 2023, but he missed all of last season after Tommy John surgery. This will be his first game back. Perez showed some really good work in his short time in the majors, allowing just 72 hits, 32 earned runs, and 31 walks with 108 strikeouts. He did similar high-level strikeout work in the minors, and Perez also looked good in eight rehab appearances this season in preparation for this return.
Perez is a mid- to high-level streamer. The matchup is pristine and puts Perez in line for a really big first game back. It's best to temper expectations a little given that he's returning from a major layoff, but the upside here makes me view Perez as something close to a must-stream player on this quiet day.
Monday's Streamer Rankings
- Eury Perez, MIA
- Brayan Bello, BOS
- Wade Miley, CIN
- Andre Pallante, STL
