MLB STARTING LINEUPS

Upcoming Lineups for:Tuesday, August 16

MLB Lineups are usually posted 1 to 2 hours before gametime. Each posted lineup shows confirmed batting orders and starting pitchers, along with each player's DFS salaries and projected points.

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Tuesday, August 16

TUE, 6:40PM ET

PHI

CIN

PROJECTED

Kyle Gibson · RHP

$7400 · 14.2 FP$8500 · 24.6 FP

PROJECTED

T.J. Zeuch · RHP

$5500 · 0.9 FP$5600 · 1.6 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 6:40PM ET

MIA

PROJECTED

Sean Manaea · LHP

$9000 · 10.6 FP$9600 · 18.3 FP

PROJECTED

Edward Cabrera · RHP

$8800 · 20.1 FP$9400 · 34.8 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:05PM ET

NYY

PROJECTED

Jeffrey Springs · LHP

$7400 · 13.2 FP$8200 · 22.8 FP

PROJECTED

Nestor Cortes · LHP

$9900 · 20.1 FP$10400 · 34.8 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:05PM ET

BOS

PIT

PROJECTED

Nick Pivetta · RHP

$8000 · 9.4 FP$9000 · 16.3 FP

PROJECTED

Mitch Keller · RHP

$6500 · 12.4 FP$7700 · 21.5 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:05PM ET

CHC

WAS

PROJECTED

Justin Steele · LHP

$6200 · 13.2 FP$9700 · 22.8 FP

PROJECTED

Patrick Corbin · LHP

$5800 · 5.1 FP$6500 · 8.8 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:07PM ET

BAL

TOR

PROJECTED

Dean Kremer · RHP

$6400 · 8.1 FP$7500 · 14.0 FP

PROJECTED

Alek Manoah · RHP

$9200 · 17.4 FP$10600 · 30.1 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:10PM ET

DET

CLE

PROJECTED

Garrett Hill · RHP

$5400 · 6.7 FP$6300 · 11.6 FP

PROJECTED

Zach Plesac · RHP

$7200 · 8.7 FP$7800 · 15.1 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:20PM ET

NYM

ATL

PROJECTED

Taijuan Walker · RHP

$8200 · 12.9 FP$7900 · 22.3 FP

PROJECTED

Charlie Morton · RHP

$8500 · 14.9 FP$9200 · 25.8 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:40PM ET

MIN

PROJECTED

Zack Greinke · RHP

$5300 · 7.2 FP$6700 · 12.5 FP

PROJECTED

Sonny Gray · RHP

$8700 · 15.0 FP$8800 · 26.0 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 7:45PM ET

COL

STL

PROJECTED

Kyle Freeland · LHP

$5600 · 7.6 FP$7300 · 13.2 FP

PROJECTED

Jose Quintana · LHP

$7800 · 15.7 FP$8400 · 27.2 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 8:05PM ET

OAK

TEX

PROJECTED

JP Sears · LHP

$6000 · 9.0 FP$6100 · 15.6 FP

PROJECTED

Kohei Arihara · HP

$5400 · 3.9 FP$ · 0.0 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 8:10PM ET

HOU

CWS

PROJECTED

Justin Verlander · RHP

$10600 · 25.4 FP$11200 · 44.0 FP

PROJECTED

Dylan Cease · RHP

$10400 · 24.7 FP$10900 · 42.7 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 8:10PM ET

LAD

MIL

PROJECTED

Ryan Pepiot · RHP

$9000 · 11.9 FP$7000 · 20.6 FP

PROJECTED

Brandon Woodruff · RHP

$10100 · 18.9 FP$10100 · 32.7 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 9:38PM ET

SEA

LAA

PROJECTED

Robbie Ray · LHP

$9500 · 17.5 FP$10300 · 30.3 FP

PROJECTED

Jose Suarez · LHP

$7000 · 10.4 FP$8000 · 18.0 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

TUE, 9:45PM ET

ARI

PROJECTED

Merrill Kelly · RHP

$9600 · 21.2 FP$9900 · 36.7 FP

PROJECTED

Jakob Junis · RHP

$6700 · 6.3 FP$7100 · 10.9 FP

BATTERS

Lineup Pending...

When do MLB lineups come out?

MLB teams usually submit their starting lineups anywhere from 3 hours to just minutes before the first pitch. It's rare to get a starting lineup in baseball posted the day or night before, except for on opening day when teams will build hype and start releasing lineups early.

Who gets first access to MLB starting lineups?

MLB managers are required to submit their lineup cards directly to the commissioners office first, before releasing to the public or media. This gives the league time to publish this information on mlb.com and in their data feeds, making the league the source of truth when it comes to official starting lineups.

Can MLB starting lineups change after they are posted?

It can happen once in a while that final lineups submitted to the umpire-in-chief on the field will be different than the ones submitted only a few hours earlier. This is usually going to be because someone was a game time decision due to illness or injury, or there was a last minute pitching change.

Why do pitchers have to bat?

Pitchers are required to bat in the National League, while the American League has allowed a designated hitter since 1973. Because of this, you'll notice that NL games always have a pitcher batting, usually in the 9th spot or sometimes in 8th. Most pitchers aren't going to be producing Shohei Ohtani batting numbers, so managers will give them less action and take on less less risk by keeping them in the back of the lineup.

What's the best batting order strategy?

From a basic stats perspective, the leadoff hitter is guaranteed more AB's than any other player. As you go deeper in the lineup you are guaranteed less at-bats. For this reason teams are going to cluster their best players in the 1-4 slots, with their 1-2 batters more often trying to just get on base, and the big hitters in the 3-4 spots focused on bringing them home. You'll want to keep an eye out for players that have moved up in rotation from 5-6 and into 1-4, since their DFS salaries might not have caught up yet and there's some value you can potentially pick up.