Two-start pitchers: Chase Burns fronts a group of intriguing options as we head into the first week of May.

Hello and welcome to the fifth installment of our weekly two-start pitcher article for the 2026 MLB season. I will be here every Friday to highlight some of the best two-start pitcher options in fantasy baseball leagues for the upcoming week providing my insights and recommendations on which options should be started or benched. It’s wild that we’re already more than a month into the 2026 MLB season.

Once we get to the weekend we’ll already be in May. Crazy times. Now that we’ve seen each of these pitchers make several starts, we should have a better feel for how they’re going to perform for the upcoming week, rather than blindly trusting what we saw from them during the spring.

This is a living document, so we'll update the options below as the weekend moves along. Before we get into it, we'll start with a couple of notes on situations that may be unresolved or teams that may not have a two-start pitcher lined up for the upcoming week: ⚾️  Baseball is back! MLB returns to  NBC and Peacock in 2026 !

In addition to becoming the exclusive home of Sunday Night Baseball, NBC Sports will broadcast MLB Sunday Leadoff, “Opening Day” and Labor Day primetime games, the first round of the MLB Draft, the entire Wild Card round of the postseason, and much more. One team that we aren’t quite sure about heading into next week (at least as of now) is the Astros. It’s possible that Peter Lambert could make two starts (at Orioles, at Red Sox), in which case he would make for an intriguing streaming option in deeper mixed leagues.