{"id":744290,"date":"2026-07-06T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/744290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:39:17","slug":"fantasy-baseball-week-16-hitters-sleepers-waiver-targets-and-best-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/744290\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy baseball Week 16 hitters: Sleepers, waiver targets and best matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best hitter matchups for this week include the Padres, Giants and Brewers<\/p>\n

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1 min read<\/p>\n

Whether you’re in need of an injury fill-in or just a hot-hand play, Scott White has you covered with 10 sleeper hitters for the upcoming scoring period, all rostered in less than 80 percent of CBS Sports leagues. They’re not must-starts by any estimation, but they’re often the best you’ll find off the waiver wire. <\/p>\n

All information is up to date as of late Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sleeper hitters for Week 16 (July 6-12)<\/p>\n

\t \t \t \t \tBest hitter matchups for Week 16<\/p>\n

1. Padres<\/a> ARI4, TOR3
2. Giants<\/a> TOR3, COL4
3. Brewers<\/a> @STL5, @PIT3
4. Orioles<\/a> CHC3, KC3
5. Dodgers<\/a> COL3, ARI3<\/p>\n

\t \t \t \t \tWorst hitter matchups for Week 16<\/p>\n

1. Marlins<\/a> SEA3, CLE3
2. Angels<\/a> @TEX3, @MIN3
3. Rays<\/a> NYY4, SEA3
4. Athletics<\/a> @DET3, @CHW3
5. Reds<\/a> PHI3, CHC3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best hitter matchups for this week include the Padres, Giants and Brewers Jul 5, 2026 at 11:32 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[3883,5,710,1001,733,55483,28,92424,92422,851,3917,1022,1179,2098,371,92423,7169,880,775],"class_list":["post-744290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-a-j-ewing","tag-baseball","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-fantasy-baseball-pickups-week-16-hitters","tag-fantasy-baseball-sleeper-hitters-week-16","tag-heliot-ramos","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-luis-garcia","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-mlb-waiver-wire-hitters-week-16","tag-tanner-gordon","tag-tommy-edman","tag-tomoyuki-sugano"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116870956145829130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}