{"id":780798,"date":"2026-08-17T04:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:39:28","slug":"fantasy-baseball-week-22-hitters-sleepers-waiver-targets-and-best-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780798\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy baseball Week 22 hitters: Sleepers, waiver targets and best matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best hitter matchups for this week include the Guardians, Reds and Red Sox<\/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\u00a0rostered in less than 80 percent\u00a0of 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 22 (Aug. 17-23)<\/p>\n

\t \t \t \t \tBest hitter matchups for Week 22<\/p>\n

1. Guardians<\/a> SF3, @COL3
2. Reds<\/a> STL5, @ARI3
3. Red Sox<\/a> ARI3, SF3
4. Rockies<\/a> LAD3, CLE3
5. Dodgers<\/a> @COL3, PIT3<\/p>\n

\t \t \t \t \tWorst hitter matchups for Week 22<\/p>\n

1. Blue Jays<\/a> @TB3, @NYY3
2. Giants<\/a> @CLE3, @BOS3
3. Orioles<\/a> @TB1, NYY3, TB3
4. Pirates<\/a> DET3, @LAD3
5. Mariners<\/a> @MIL3, CHC3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best hitter matchups for this week include the Guardians, Reds and Red Sox Aug 16, 2026 at 11:53…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2001,6197,5,457,47392,28,96016,96014,3541,2098,96015,1331,1028,6967,36210,2081,129,3291],"class_list":["post-780798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-andrew-abbott","tag-angel-martinez","tag-baseball","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-cole-carrigg","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-fantasy-baseball-pickups-week-22-hitters","tag-fantasy-baseball-sleeper-hitters-week-22","tag-josh-bell","tag-luis-garcia","tag-mlb-waiver-wire-hitters-week-22","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-rhett-lowder","tag-ryan-waldschmidt","tag-steven-kwan","tag-willi-castro","tag-zack-gelof"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117109009155024868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780798","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=780798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}