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Cubs - Phillies weather could shake fantasy baseball starts this week

Cubs - Phillies weather and FanGraphs’ updated 2026 starting pitcher chart could affect fantasy start/sit calls over the next three days.

Starting Pitcher Chart – April 13th, 2026
Starting Pitcher Chart – April 13th, 2026

updated its Starting Pitcher Chart on April 13, 2026, moving the display to 2026 data and dropping 2025 from the table. The chart is built for standard 5×5 roto leagues and now pairs each pitcher’s current numbers with the wOBA rank for opponents this year so far.

It also folds in performance for 2026, opponent wOBA against the pitcher’s handedness, start-sit recommendations for 10-team, 12-team and 15-team-or-more leagues, plus a note. For fantasy players trying to sort out cubs - phillies and the rest of the slate, the update matters because the next three days carry weather concerns across a broad band from Texas through Minneapolis and Chicago and into Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania.

The games most exposed to those forecasts include at , at , at , at MIN and TOR at MIL. Cincinnati was not named directly, but it sits in the same general weather band and is set to host the Giants starting tomorrow, leaving that series at least part of the conversation even without a specific mention.

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The problem is that weather remains weather and forecasts remain forecasts, so the risk is real without being certain. FanGraphs’ chart gives fantasy managers a cleaner read on who to start, but the next three days could still turn on whether those storms and delays move in time to affect games, particularly in the Midwest and Northeast where the schedule is already close to the edge.

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