Flaherty, Lopez Lead Week 18 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers
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- Jack Flaherty and Reynaldo Lopez headline CBS Sports' top 10 sleeper pitchers list for Fantasy Baseball Week 18.
- The Week 18 preview applies only to leagues starting a fresh scoring period Monday — leagues that merged the post-All-Star-break weekend with the first full week into an 11-day supersized scoring period are explicitly excluded.
- Sleeper pitcher selections are limited to players rostered in fewer than 80 percent of CBS Sports leagues, with all information current as of late Sunday.
- CBS Sports is publishing a multi-article Week 18 series, including separate two-start pitcher rankings highlighting Parker Messick and Freddy Peralta, plus waiver wire pieces on Cade Cavalli and Jared Jones.
Why it matters: For fantasy managers in standard-scoring leagues starting Week 18 on Monday, Flaherty and Lopez offer widely-available streaming options under the 80 percent CBS Sports roster threshold — but the article explicitly tells managers in 11-day supersized scoring periods to ignore the list entirely.
