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Tampa Bay Rays – With Diego Castillo having pitched 2 innings on Sunday and Jose Alvarado coming off a back-to-back, the Rays turned to Emilio Pagan for the save opportunity. Pagan converted, and has only allowed one baserunner through his first five innings this season.
Hierarchy remains: *Alvarado | Castillo | Roe.
* = closer-by-committee
Unclaimed yesterday in the American Dreams. It's not like we didn't throw our darts.
Random Hackers: res CGearrin Sea, pur MWalden Bos 3 |
""No way I'm out until June," said Polanco" And he was right. Polanco returned yesterday, going 2-for-4 with a walk and a pair of runs scored.
Sent down to work out of the Memphis pen, he's now being stretched out and will most likely return to the Cards in a starting capacity. He tossed three shutout innings of one hit, one walk ball with four strikeouts on Saturday against Round Rock. Does this mean that CarMart is likely to be in the bullpen when he returns or is it simply filling a need based on the performance of Dakota Hudson thus far and Wacha hitting the DL. Whatever the reason, Reyes returning to the starting role is good news.
Regression police rejoice!
my guess is that he's done ... went down in a heap after what looked like his elbow snapping during a pitch ... feel for him ...
0-4 tonight with a K. In St. Louis.
3-for-3 tonight (so far) after hitting .471 last week.
I have the high bid here and gave it a slight inflation boost on my sheet, but stopped bidding when he reached $10 in the ADL. Not sure why. I've always liked Reddick's game.
Back under the surgeon's knife for what seems like a repeat of the procedure he had last year on his right elbow. Expected to miss 4-6 weeks.
To the DL with patellar tendinitis. Expected to miss just one start.
You know things are going bad when, running across the bottom of the NL game on MLB, you see the White Sox have put a hurt on a team that has no pitching, you go to OnRoto to see what Eloy did, and you read:
04.22: White Sox placed OF Eloy Jimenez on the bereavement list.
While I was posting under Gallo, Alonso reached over and slapped a ball that was a good foot outside down the first base line for an RBI double.
It's official. I'm a Gallo fan and an Alonso fan.
Hit .478 this week. Only four of his 11 hits were big flies. His G/L/F this year is 35/28/38. Clearly he needs to work on his launch angle.
I'm embarrassed by my bid. (While I was pleased when he went for $23 in the ADL.) Time to get over my batting average phobia.
He has 5 HR and April has a week left in it. Did I realize he earned $14 last year? Did anyone in my league? I think we all assumed he continued his 2017 futility. 13 HR and 12 SB is no joke.
IDK if he'll have a lot of fantasy value outside of steals; but he looks like a ball player and acts like a ball player so I'm sold on adding him to my team to see if he can become:
1) The 2019 version of the 2017 Chris Taylor
2) Dansby Swanson with more steals
3) or Whit Merrifield within a couple of years
Yep. Every year mid-season you can look back and see a MR or two who you wish you had picked up early and left in your lineup throughout. Brebbia and Nick Burdi might qualify as well.
It truly is.
Here's another amzing factoid, this one from Sam Miller at ESPN.
... Yelich has managed to increase his pull rate at the same time he has increased his fly ball rate, from 38 percent pre-2018 All Star break to 43 percent since.
And almost every fly ball he pulls is hit hard and far. Before last year's midway point, he had slugged .935 on flies. Since then, he has slugged 2.136. He has pulled four fly balls this year, and they've all been home runs.
The second player on Baseball America's Hot Sheet this week.
2. Drew Waters, OF, Braves
Team: Double-A Mississippi (Southern)
Age: 20
Why He's Here: .375/.412/.656 (12-for-32), 4 R, 6 2B, 1 HR, 5 RBIs, 2 BB, 12 SO
The Scoop: While fellow 20-year-old outfielder Cristian Pache is hitting .309/.361/.618 for Double-A Mississippi, Waters—born a month after Pache—is right there with his teammate at .333/.389/.515 through 15 games. The 22 strikeouts are high, but if Waters gets a fastball in his hot zone early in the count, he's up there doing damage with an aggressive approach. (BB)
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Milwaukee Brewers – Jeremy Jeffress logged his third straight scoreless outing since his return from the IL. The Brewers have struggled to find a good bridge to Josh Hader in his absence, so we think this is good enough to move him up on to the hierarchy.
Updated hierarchy: Hader | Jeffress | Wilson.