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Find fantasy baseball sleepers with First Pitch! You can use our starting pitcher rankings and bullpen notes to set your season-long lineup or create a winning lineup in daily fantasy baseball contests, too.   Here's a look at pitcher rankings, saves sleepers and weather warnings. Today's action gets underway at 6:10 p.m. ET in Cleveland with the  Cardinals-Indians . READ MORE: SN Fantasy  | Daily lineup splits SP RANKINGS 1.    Chris Sale, CWS at MIL 2.    Stephen Strasburg, WAS at ARI 3.    Chris Archer, TB vs. NYY 4.    Collin McHugh, HOU vs. SF 5.    A.J. Burnett, PIT at PHI 6.    Jake Arrieta, CHC vs. NYM 7.    Lance Lynn, STL at CLE 8.    Carlos Carrasco, CLE vs. STL 9.    Dan Haren, MIA at LAD 10.    Ian Kennedy, SD at SEA 11.    Edinson Volquez, KC at TEX 12.    Anthony DeSclafani, CIN vs. ATL 13.    Alfredo Simon, DET vs. MIN 14.    Mike Fiers, MIL vs. CWS 15.    Nathan Eovaldi, NYY at TB 16.    Noah Syndergaard, NYM at CHC 17.    Carlos Frias, LAD vs. MIA 18.    Drew...

Find fantasy baseball sleepers with First Pitch! You can use our starting pitcher rankings and batter vs. pitcher stats to set your season-long lineup or create a winning lineup in daily fantasy baseball contests, too.   Here's a look at key stat splits, pitcher rankings, saves sleepers and weather warnings. Today's action gets underway at  1:05 p.m. ET in Washington with the  Marlins-Nationals , and it's highlighted by a doubleheader in Denver between the  Diamondbacks  and  Rockies . READ MORE: Sporting News Fantasy - Victor Martinez is 15-for-32 (.469) with three homers and three doubles against Chris Sale . - Kyle Seager is just 3-for-36 (.083) with 15 Ks against C.J. Wilson . - Buster Posey is 15-for-37 (.405) against Ian Kennedy , while Brandon Belt is slugging .600 in 25 at-bats against the righthander. - Despite the lefty/lefty matchup, Brett Gardner (1.007 OPS), Brian McCann (1.078) and Stephen Drew (1.134) have crushed Mark Buehrle . - Carlos Santana is 7...

The 2015 NFL Draft is in the books, which means fantasy football owners can’t wait to deploy another exciting wave of rookies entering the league. Although much can change in the next four months, here's our initial ranking of the new offensive skill players, based on talent and situation. Annual reminder: The order in which these players were drafted in real life has on bearing on this exercise: MORE: Draft-day insight on 35 key skill players DRAFT 'EM 1. Melvin Gordon, RB, Chargers . Gordon is tabbed to be an early-down workhorse role in an established, balanced offense, replacing Ryan Mathews . Danny Woodhead will cut into third-down work, but that’s the only real downside. (Draft-day value: RB2) 2. Tevin Coleman, RB, Falcons . Veteran  Steven Jackson is gone, and Devonta Freeman is coming off a less-than-meh rookie season. Atlanta didn’t hide how much it loved Coleman and will give the Hoosier a shot at a heavy workload. Matt Ryan and the passing game ensure Coleman wo...