Fantasy Baseball Forecaster Week 12: June 15-21

Tristan H. CockcroftJun 12, 2026, 09:42 AM ET
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Fantasy baseball's Week 12 comes with some unusual scheduling quirks due to FIFA World Cup matches affecting games in Kansas City, Philadelphia and Texas. It's the rare week where the only two days in which all 30 teams are scheduled to play are on Tuesday and Sunday.

The Kansas City Royals have a scheduled off day Saturday, splitting up their three-game home series against the St. Louis Cardinals into games on Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
The Philadelphia Phillies are off Friday, meaning that their three-game home series against the New York Mets will be played on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Texas Rangers have a Wednesday off day, so the finale of their three-game, week-opening series against the Minnesota Twins is scheduled for Thursday.

One additional, related note: The Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners, who were originally scheduled to play a split doubleheader at T-Mobile Park on Saturday due to World Cup matches in Seattle, are now scheduled to play a traditional three-game series Friday through Sunday.

Lineup lock times

Week 12

Date	Total games	First game time	Day games
Monday, June 15	10	6:40 PM	0
Tuesday, June 16	15	6:40 PM	0
Wednesday, June 17	14	12:40 PM	7
Thursday, June 18	9	1:35 PM	4
Friday, June 19	14	2:20 PM	1
Saturday, June 20	13	1:10 PM	7
Sunday, June 21	15	1:35 PM	14

Scheduling quirks

Week 12: Teams with the most games

Total		Home		vs. LHSP		vs. RHSP
Athletics	7	Athletics	7	7 tied with	3	Athletics	6
Angels	7	9 tied with	6			Orioles	6
28 tied with	6					Red Sox	6
						Guardians	6
						Rangers	6
						12 tied with	5

Starting pitcher ranks

Week 12: June 15-21

Rk	Pitcher	Team	1st Start	2nd Start
1	Zack Wheeler	PHI	Mon 6/15-MIA (Gusto)	Sun 6/21-NYM (Senga)
2	Chase Burns	CIN	Mon 6/15-NYM (Peterson)	Sun 6/21-@NYY (Cole)
3	Payton Tolle	BOS	Tue 6/16-TOR (Cease)	Sun 6/21-@SEA (Hancock)
4	Brandon Young	BAL	Tue 6/16-@SEA (Gilbert)	Sun 6/21-@LAD (Sheehan)
5	Gerrit Cole	NYY	Tue 6/16-CWS (Martin)	Sun 6/21-CIN (Burns)
6	Shota Imanaga	CHC	Mon 6/15-COL (Lorenzen)	Sun 6/21-TOR (Cease)
7	Cristopher Sanchez	PHI	Sat 6/20-NYM (Peralta)
8	Jesus Luzardo	PHI	Tue 6/16-MIA (Phillips)
9	Ryne Nelson	ARI	Mon 6/15-LAA (Urena)	Sun 6/21-MIN (Paredes)
10	Logan Gilbert	SEA	Tue 6/16-BAL (Young)
11	Dylan Cease	TOR	Tue 6/16-@BOS (Tolle)	Sun 6/21-@CHC (Imanaga)
12	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD	Sat 6/20-BAL (Rogers)
13	Andrew Alvarez	WSH	Mon 6/15-KC (Lugo)	Sun 6/21-@TB (Martinez)
14	Tarik Skubal	DET	Sat 6/20-CWS (Fedde)
15	Chris Sale	ATL	Wed 6/17-SF (Ray)
16	Jacob Misiorowski	MIL	Thu 6/18-CLE (Bibee)
17	Shohei Ohtani	LAD	Tue 6/16-TB (Rasmussen)
18	Bryan Woo	SEA	Thu 6/18-BAL (Baz)
19	Hunter Brown	HOU	Mon 6/15-DET (Melton)
20	Davis Martin	CWS	Tue 6/16-@NYY (Cole)	Sun 6/21-@DET (Mize)
21	Connelly Early	BOS	Sat 6/20-@SEA (Castillo)
22	Carlos Rodon	NYY	Wed 6/17-CWS (Kay)
23	Joe Ryan	MIN	Thu 6/18-@TEX (Leiter)
24	Reid Detmers	LAA	Tue 6/16-@ARI (Kelly)	Sun 6/21-@ATH (Civale)
25	Ian Seymour	TB	Sat 6/20-WSH (Mikolas)
26	Nolan McLean	NYM	Wed 6/17-@CIN (Lodolo)
27	Logan Webb	SF	Sat 6/20-@MIA (Gusto)
28	Nick Martinez	TB	Mon 6/15-@LAD (Lauer)	Sun 6/21-WSH (Alvarez)
29	Brandon Woodruff	MIL	Tue 6/16-CLE (Cecconi)	Sun 6/21-@ATL (Holmes)
30	MacKenzie Gore	TEX	Mon 6/15-MIN (Paredes)	Sun 6/21-SD (Giolito)
31	Adrian Houser	SF	Tue 6/16-@ATL (Holmes)	Sun 6/21-@MIA (Phillips)
32	Ranger Suarez	BOS	Fri 6/19-@SEA (Miller)
33	George Kirby	SEA	Wed 6/17-BAL (Bradish)
34	Will Warren	NYY	Sat 6/20-CIN (Abbott)
35	Andrew Abbott	CIN	Sat 6/20-@NYY (Warren)
36	Jacob deGrom	TEX	Fri 6/19-SD (Vasquez)
37	Ryan Weathers	NYY	Thu 6/18-CWS (Burke)
38	Roki Sasaki	LAD	Fri 6/19-BAL (Gibson)
39	Drew Rasmussen	TB	Tue 6/16-@LAD (Ohtani)
40	Cam Schlittler	NYY	Fri 6/19-CIN (Lowder)
41	Bryce Miller	SEA	Fri 6/19-BOS (Suarez)
42	Spencer Arrighetti	HOU	Sun 6/21-CLE (Cecconi)
43	Freddy Peralta	NYM	Sat 6/20-@PHI (Sanchez)
44	Michael Soroka	ARI	Fri 6/19-MIN (Prielipp)
45	Nathan Eovaldi	TEX	Sat 6/20-SD (Buehler)
46	Max Meyer	MIA	Fri 6/19-SF (Mahle)
47	Tatsuya Imai	HOU	Fri 6/19-CLE (Cantillo)
48	Michael King	SD	Tue 6/16-@STL (Pallante)
49	Ben Brown	CHC	Wed 6/17-COL (Agnos)
50	Peter Lambert	HOU	Wed 6/17-DET (Valdez)
51	Seth Lugo	KC	Mon 6/15-@WSH (Alvarez)	Sun 6/21-STL (McGreevy)
52	Framber Valdez	DET	Wed 6/17-@HOU (Lambert)
53	Kevin Gausman	TOR	Fri 6/19-@CHC (Assad)
54	Shane Baz	BAL	Thu 6/18-@SEA (Woo)
55	Slade Cecconi	CLE	Tue 6/16-@MIL (Woodruff)	Sun 6/21-@HOU (Arrighetti)
56	Luis Castillo	SEA	Sat 6/20-BOS (Early)
57	Dustin May	STL	Mon 6/15-SD (Giolito)
58	Tyler Phillips	MIA	Tue 6/16-@PHI (Luzardo)	Sun 6/21-SF (Houser)
59	Troy Melton	DET	Mon 6/15-@HOU (Brown)
60	Merrill Kelly	ARI	Tue 6/16-LAA (Detmers)
61	Sean Manaea	NYM	Thu 6/18-@PHI (Nola)
62	Foster Griffin	WSH	Tue 6/16-KC (Wacha)
63	Emmet Sheehan	LAD	Sun 6/21-BAL (Young)
64	Gavin Williams	CLE	Sat 6/20-@HOU (Burrows)
65	Anthony Kay	CWS	Wed 6/17-@NYY (Rodon)
66	Paul Skenes	PIT	Sat 6/20-@COL (Sugano)
67	Cade Cavalli	WSH	Fri 6/19-@TB (Jax)
68	Sean Burke	CWS	Thu 6/18-@NYY (Weathers)
69	Walbert Urena	LAA	Mon 6/15-@ARI (Nelson)	Sat 6/20-@ATH (Perkins)
70	Lucas Giolito	SD	Mon 6/15-@STL (May)	Sun 6/21-@TEX (Gore)
71	Jack Flaherty	DET	Fri 6/19-CWS (Rock)
72	Kyle Bradish	BAL	Wed 6/17-@SEA (Kirby)
73	Grant Holmes	ATL	Tue 6/16-SF (Houser)	Sun 6/21-MIL (Woodruff)
74	Emerson Hancock	SEA	Sun 6/21-BOS (Tolle)
75	Kai-Wei Teng	HOU	Tue 6/16-DET (Verlander)
76	Trey Yesavage	TOR	Thu 6/18-@BOS (Gray)
77	Noah Cameron	KC	Thu 6/18-STL (Leahy)
78	Parker Messick	CLE	Wed 6/17-@MIL (Sproat)
79	Edward Cabrera	CHC	Tue 6/16-COL (Feltner)
80	Aaron Nola	PHI	Thu 6/18-NYM (Manaea)
81	Casey Mize	DET	Sun 6/21-CWS (Martin)
82	Jack Leiter	TEX	Thu 6/18-MIN (Ryan)
83	Griffin Jax	TB	Fri 6/19-WSH (Cavalli)
84	Christian Scott	NYM	Tue 6/16-@CIN (Singer)
85	Sandy Alcantara	MIA	Wed 6/17-@PHI (Painter)
86	Mike Burrows	HOU	Sat 6/20-CLE (Williams)
87	Hunter Dobbins	STL	Wed 6/17-SD (Canning)
88	Trevor Rogers	BAL	Sat 6/20-@LAD (Yamamoto)
89	Taj Bradley	MIN	Sat 6/20-@ARI (Gallen)
90	Justin Wrobleski	LAD	Wed 6/17-TB (McClanahan)
91	Kyle Harrison	MIL	Sat 6/20-@ATL (Elder)
92	Trey Gibson	BAL	Fri 6/19-@LAD (Sasaki)
93	Shane McClanahan	TB	Wed 6/17-@LAD (Wrobleski)
94	Kumar Rocker	TEX	Tue 6/16-MIN (Matthews)
95	Justin Verlander	DET	Tue 6/16-@HOU (Teng)
96	David Peterson	NYM	Mon 6/15-@CIN (Burns)
97	Eduardo Rodriguez	ARI	Wed 6/17-LAA (Aldegheri)
98	Ryan Gusto	MIA	Mon 6/15-@PHI (Wheeler)	Sat 6/20-SF (Webb)
99	Andre Pallante	STL	Tue 6/16-SD (King)
100	Eric Lauer	LAD	Mon 6/15-TB (Martinez)
101	Griffin Canning	SD	Wed 6/17-@STL (Dobbins)
102	Brady Singer	CIN	Tue 6/16-NYM (Scott)
103	Stephen Kolek	KC	Fri 6/19-STL (Liberatore)
104	Zebby Matthews	MIN	Tue 6/16-@TEX (Rocker)
105	Michael Wacha	KC	Tue 6/16-@WSH (Griffin)
106	Tyler Mahle	SF	Fri 6/19-@MIA (Meyer)
107	Landen Roupp	SF	Thu 6/18-@ATL (Strider)
108	Robbie Ray	SF	Wed 6/17-@ATL (Sale)
109	Spencer Strider	ATL	Thu 6/18-SF (Roupp)
110	Michael McGreevy	STL	Sun 6/21-@KC (Lugo)
111	Andrew Painter	PHI	Wed 6/17-MIA (Alcantara)
112	Joey Cantillo	CLE	Fri 6/19-@HOU (Imai)
113	Brandon Sproat	MIL	Wed 6/17-CLE (Messick)
114	Zac Gallen	ARI	Sat 6/20-MIN (Bradley)
115	Kodai Senga	NYM	Sun 6/21-@PHI (Wheeler)
116	Colin Rea	CHC	Sat 6/20-TOR (Corbin)
117	Patrick Corbin	TOR	Sat 6/20-@CHC (Rea)
118	Martin Perez	ATL	Fri 6/19-MIL (Drohan)
119	Shane Drohan	MIL	Fri 6/19-@ATL (Perez)
120	Jack Perkins	ATH	Mon 6/15-PIT (Jones)	Sat 6/20-LAA (Urena)
121	Michael Paredes	MIN	Mon 6/15-@TEX (Gore)	Sun 6/21-@ARI (Nelson)
122	Nick Lodolo	CIN	Wed 6/17-NYM (McLean)
123	Tanner Bibee	CLE	Thu 6/18-@MIL (Misiorowski)
124	Miles Mikolas	WSH	Sat 6/20-@TB (Seymour)
125	Luinder Avila	KC	Wed 6/17-@WSH (Littell)
126	Sonny Gray	BOS	Thu 6/18-TOR (Yesavage)
127	Rhett Lowder	CIN	Fri 6/19-@NYY (Schlittler)
128	Bryce Elder	ATL	Sat 6/20-MIL (Harrison)
129	Zack Littell	WSH	Wed 6/17-KC (Avila)
130	J.T. Ginn	ATH	Fri 6/19-LAA (Rodriguez)
131	Erick Fedde	CWS	Sat 6/20-@DET (Skubal)
132	Ryan Feltner	COL	Tue 6/16-@CHC (Cabrera)
133	Braxton Ashcraft	PIT	Wed 6/17-@ATH (Jump)
134	Connor Prielipp	MIN	Fri 6/19-@ARI (Soroka)
135	Javier Assad	CHC	Fri 6/19-TOR (Gausman)
136	Zach Agnos	COL	Wed 6/17-@CHC (Brown)
137	Matthew Liberatore	STL	Fri 6/19-@KC (Kolek)
138	Joe Rock	CWS	Fri 6/19-@DET (Flaherty)
139	Sam Aldegheri	LAA	Wed 6/17-@ARI (Rodriguez)
140	Randy Vasquez	SD	Fri 6/19-@TEX (deGrom)
141	Max Scherzer	TOR	Wed 6/17-@BOS (Bennett)
142	Gage Jump	ATH	Wed 6/17-PIT (Ashcraft)
143	Walker Buehler	SD	Sat 6/20-@TEX (Eovaldi)
144	Kyle Leahy	STL	Thu 6/18-@KC (Cameron)
145	Jose Soriano	LAA	Thu 6/18-@ATH (Springs)
146	Jake Bennett	BOS	Wed 6/17-TOR (Scherzer)
147	Bubba Chandler	PIT	Fri 6/19-@COL (Freeland)
148	Mitch Keller	PIT	Tue 6/16-@ATH (Civale)
149	Jared Jones	PIT	Mon 6/15-@ATH (Perkins)	Sun 6/21-@COL (Lorenzen)
150	Jeffrey Springs	ATH	Thu 6/18-LAA (Soriano)
151	Aaron Civale	ATH	Tue 6/16-PIT (Keller)	Sun 6/21-LAA (Detmers)
152	Michael Lorenzen	COL	Mon 6/15-@CHC (Imanaga)	Sun 6/21-PIT (Jones)
153	Grayson Rodriguez	LAA	Fri 6/19-@ATH (Ginn)
154	Kyle Freeland	COL	Fri 6/19-PIT (Chandler)
155	Tomoyuki Sugano	COL	Sat 6/20-PIT (Skenes)

Hitter ratings

Week 12: June 15-21

Overall		LHB		RHB		SB
Pirates	10.0	Angels	9.4	Pirates	9.8	Giants	9.0
Angels	9.3	Pirates	9.3	Angels	8.9	Tigers	8.8
Athletics	8.5	Rangers	9.1	Athletics	8.9	Dodgers	8.4
Royals	7.7	Athletics	8.2	Diamondbacks	8.1	Blue Jays	8.1
Rangers	7.1	Royals	7.7	Royals	7.8	Red Sox	8.1
Diamondbacks	7.1	Twins	7.1	Dodgers	7.1	Yankees	7.9
Braves	6.3	Rockies	6.3	Nationals	6.8	Rangers	7.3
Cubs	5.8	Braves	6.2	Rays	6.6	Nationals	6.9
Nationals	5.8	Cubs	6.2	Brewers	6.4	Mariners	6.8
Brewers	5.8	Diamondbacks	6.1	Yankees	6.2	Cubs	6.6