Edwin Encarnacion - And the fantasy MVP for the evening went to Edwin Encarnacion who extended his hit streak to 24 games, oh and hit three homers and drove in nine runs in the Blue Jays 15-4 thrashing of Buck Farmer. The game now puts him at 29 homers and 90 RBI on the year, so if you want to think about it a tenth of his RBI on the season came yesterday alone. Over the hit streak he's bumped his average up to .269 and his wRC+ has skyrocketed to 143.
Josh Donaldson - Josh Donaldson is probably the person not named Mike Trout to most likely win the MVP Award in the AL. With a 3-for-5, two RBI performance Saturday he now has 35 homers, 104 RBI and an even .300 average all good for a 159 wRC+. Insanity. And the craziest part is he's doing the majority of his damage out of the number two spot in the lineup. Number two hitters aren't supposed to have 100 RBI in a season, let alone before we even reach September. He was most analysts pick for the top third baseman this year but I don't know anyone who saw this level of production coming.
Stephen Vogt - The darling of the first two-ish months of the season homered Saturday giving him 17 long balls on the season. Stephen Vogt's pace from the first months has fallen off dramatically but he is still a top option at the catcher, mainly due to the top heaviness of the position. Unfortunately, Vogt still has yet to master the art of hitting lefties triple slashing .240/.307./.340 against them. He's a must start in daily leagues against righties if you roster him and he can make nice plays for DFS too in the right spots, but he should be on your bench against lefties for the rest of the year.
Mookie Betts - Mookie Betts has begun to like Saturdays as he's homered now on back to back week to kick off the weekend. Betts hit his 12th homer of the year this Saturday and has had a nice all around season that owners were searching for when they drafted him in the spring. !7 stolen bases though for him was probably on the low end of most predictions because I'm sure that his current .319 OBP s wellll below what we thought he would be at. His biggest issue with the OBP is simple; he doesn't walk. He's walked just 33 times this season (6.5%) and his BABIP isn't high enough to offset that to rack up steals.
Mike Moustakas - Mike Moustakas had a big game lashing out here hits, including two double, and driving in three in the ballgame. His breakout campaign continues as he's maintaining his .285 average thanks to a 7% increase in his opposite field spray chart. Now that increase has been documented heavily, but he actually has continued it over the course of the season except for August. In August his oppo% has dropped to 19.2% but he is still hitting .275 for the month. He's made some excellent strides as a hitter this year and I'm very interested to see where he comes off draft boards next year.
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