Sunday's Fantasy Baseball Pitching Streamers: Luis Gil, Ian Seymour and More

At the beginning of their series on Friday, the Milwaukee Brewers were the top team in the National League, and the Toronto Blue Jays were the top team in the American League. Milwaukee won the first two games of the series (Detroit has since passed Toronto), showing that they reign supreme in the regular season.

The top teams from the regular season don't often meet in the World Series. Part of the reason is that the true best teams don't always finish with the best records, and even if they do, baseball's playoffs are as fickle as any other sport, with a short series able to knock a team out in two or three days before they even know what happened. For one weekend, though, the Brewers look like THE team of 2025.

Let's look at five starting pitchers in action on Sunday 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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Brad Lord, Washington Nationals vs. Tampa Bay Rays

Ian Seymour, Tampa Bay Rays @ Washington Nationals

We'll start with a series of two poor offenses who have shown as much during the first few games. Both Friday's and Saturday's games ended with a score of 4-1 in favor of the Rays, showing the type of low scoring we would expect from a clear bottom-10 offense over the full season (Washington) and a team who has played at that bottom-10 level for the last few months (Tampa Bay).

In his first season, Lord has made 13 starts and 29 relief appearances, racking up 100 2/3 innings along the way. He has been a perfectly reasonable streaming pitcher, giving up 97 hits, 43 earned runs (3.84 ERA), and 10 homers with 33 walks and 82 strikeouts. His strikeout rate is a little below average, the same as it was in the minor leagues, so we probably won't see much improvement there, but everything else has been very average.

Seymour is also a rookie and has worked mostly out of the bullpen, with just one start in 13 total outings. That start was his last game, Monday against the Guardians, when he threw five scoreless innings with just one hit allowed, one walk, and eight strikeouts. He has done well with walks and very well with strikeouts (nearly a 30% K% versus league average around 22.5%); he did the same high-level strikeout work in the minors, so that is probably here to stay.

Lord is a low-to-mid-level streamer and Seymour a mid-level streamer. The latter has the better matchup and has shown high-level work, while Lord has been good but doesn't have the same strikeout upside, capping his fantasy ceiling just a bit.

Luis Gil, New York Yankees @ Chicago White Sox

Gil gets the best matchup of the day against the White Sox, who lost the first two games of the series by a combined 20-6 before yesterday's 5-3 New York victory in 11 innings. Chicago is in the bottom 10 in essentially every offensive box stat, many of them down in the bottom five. One of the worst teams in baseball continues as one of our top targets, and they'll likely be right back there next season.

Gil missed more than four months at the beginning of the season with injury, making just five starts so far, all in August. He has done fairly well in that time, making short starts (topping out at 5 1/3 innings) but effectively striking batters out and limiting runs. He has struggled with his control, walking 17 guys in 24 innings, and that is a career-long issue he has dealt with, so there's a little risk. Gil has the makings of a strong pitcher, though, when he is on.

Gil is a mid-level streamer. Those walk numbers do hold him down a bit, but the matchup is pristine, and Gil has a high ceiling to go with a lower floor.

J.T. Ginn, Athletics vs. Texas Rangers

This game is taking place at the A's home in Sacramento, which has been the second-most hitter friendly of any park in baseball this season (according to Baseball Savant), behind just Coors Field in Colorado. I tend to avoid Coors and Sacramento when looking for streaming pitchers, but sometimes, we just don't have enough streamers otherwise, and that's the case today. The Rangers' home park has been the most pitcher friendly by those same metrics, so it's worth questioning if Texas is really that bad offensively or if they are just being held down by their stadium (also: are their pitchers really a top-10 unit or is Globe Life Field pumping those numbers?).

Ginn has been better than average with both walks and strikeouts, but he has been knocked around a bit, as his ERA is almost 5.00. Is Sacramento to blame? His home/away splits say yes.

• Home: 33 1/3 innings, 41 hits, 24 earned runs (6.48 ERA), 10 home runs, 14 walks, and 37 strikeouts.
• Away: 32 innings, 28 hits, 12 earned runs (3.38 ERA), four home runs, seven walks, and 37 strikeouts.

Ginn is a low-to-mid-level streamer in this one. He has been a good pitcher, but as the splits show, he is a different player on the road, and this one is at home, lowering his floor.

Tomoyuki Sugano, Baltimore Orioles @ San Francisco Giants

Sugano has continued to find some success despite a very low strikeout rate. In his first year stateside from Japan, the 35-year-old has a walk rate under 6% (league average is around 8%) but a strikeout rate around 15.6%, well below the middle. He also hasn't been particularly good at limiting hitters, giving up more than a base hit per inning and a homer every six innings, but luck has gone his way, as Sugano's ERA is right around 4.00.

The Giants rank in the bottom 10 in runs, hits, doubles, home runs, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS. They are in the top 10 in most walks drawn, but they also rank 12th in most batter strikeouts, offsetting that a bit. San Francisco has had good pitching this season, but the offense can't do enough to help them out, leaving the team outside the playoff picture.

Sugano is a low-to-mid-level streamer. I won't deny his mild success, but it seems more like luck than high-level pitching, so I'm skeptical of trusting him in my fantasy lineup.

Sunday's Streamer Rankings

1. Luis Gil, NYY
2. Ian Seymour, TB
3. J.T. Ginn, ATH
4. Brad Lord, WAS
5. Tomoyuki Sugano, BAL