Billy Butler, 1B/DH, Kansas City Royals -- Butler is another guy to avoid in 2014. Aside from his .286 average, his 78 RBI rank 13th amongst 1B/DH in the American League. He's hit just 14 home runs, which actually hurts

Daniel Murphy, 2B/1B, New York Mets -- Murphy finished 1-for-4 with a stolen base (his 20th straight without being caught)in New York's 1-0 win over Cincy yesterday afternoon. Two nights ago, he had the deciding 3-run homer on a 12-pitch

Brian Dozier, 2B, Minnesota Twins -- Dozier finished 1-for-3 with an RBI yesterday which proved to be the game winner. It was Dozier's 62nd RBI of the season in what was his first year as the everyday 2B for Minnesota.

Lucas Duda, OF, New York Mets -- Duda had a nice double header, reaching base five times (three hits, two walks) in eight plate appearances, including a solo homer. The big fly was his 14th of the season, and his

Wilson Ramos, C, Washington Nationals -- Ramos is about as hot as a fantasy batter gets at the moment, blasting his third home run in his last five contests, and his 13th overall this season, helping the Nationals handle the

Lucas Duda, OF, New York Mets Duda finished yesterday's contest 0-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. It was a rough time out for the big fella, as he fanned three times, but since getting called up, he looks

Kyle Blanks, OF, San Diego Padres In his first action since July 11th, Blanks finished 2-for-4, batting 5th for Bud Black in the Padres order. Prior to getting injured, the 26-year old was batting .256 with 26 runs scored, eight

Jeff Locke, SP, Pittsburgh Pirates Similar to his teammate Francisco Liriano's start last week, Locke had a nightmarish outing against Arizona, yielding eight earned on 10 hits in just 2.2 innings of work. It's starts like this that can lose

Steve Cishek, RP, Miami Marlins Cishek pitched a scoreless ninth to notch his 26th save of the year. He retired the first two batters, only to give up a double and a walk before closing the game out. After an

Josh Donaldson, 3B, Oakland A's: Cold Batter Donaldson finally drove in a run with a solo homer off of Homer Bailey yesterday afternoon. This marked his first RBI of the second half. He finished the game 2-for-4 with two runs

Kenley Jansen, RP, Los Angeles Dodgers: Great Player Jansen struck out two in a perfect ninth to earn his 16th save in 19 tries this year. Since May, Jansen hasn't lost a game and he hasn't blown a save since

Daniel Murphy, 2B, New York Mets Over the course of the season, most player hit their hot and cold streaks. For Murphy, his hotstreaks seem to always be scorching hot. Sure a .400 batting average over a two week span

Wil Myers, OF, Tampa Bay Rays: Rookie Myers drove in the 17th and 18th runs of his season (and career) yesterday in Toronto to help Tampa win, 4-3. He finished the game 2-for-4 and now has a line of .310/.336/.460

Brandon Phillips, 2B, Cincinnati Reds: RBI Machine Phillips only recorded one hit in four at-bats Friday night, but his only hit proved to be huge as he cleared the bases with a double to deep center, narrowly missing a grand

Pedro Alvarez, 3B, Pittsburgh Pirates: Hot Batter Alvarez continues to swing a blazing hot bat, hitting a three-run bomb to give the Pirates a lead they wouldn't squander. The blast was his 21st of the season already and his 11th

Justin Upton,OF, Atlanta Braves: Cold Batter Upton finished 1-for-3 with an RBI in Atlanta's 3-0 win over the Diamondbacks. After exploding in the opening month of the season with 12 dingers and 19 RBI, Upton has just three home runs

Nelson Cruz, OF, Texas Rangers: Hot Batter The Texas slugger finished 2-for-4 while hitting his 19th home run of the season, which was enough to hand the Cardinals the loss, 4-2. After hitting a very underwhelming .216 with a .282

Justin Morneau, 1B, Minnesota Twins: Run Producer Morneau finished last night's game 1-for-4, but his only hit netted two RBI en route to Minnesota's 8-4 victory over the White Sox yesterday. It has been an odd year for the Twins

Jeff Locke, SP, Pittsburgh Pirates: Hot Pitcher Locke continued his string of good starts yesterday, tossing seven scoreless in Pittsburgh's 3-0 victory over Los Angeles. The win was his 6th of the season and it seemed to come easy to

Francisco Liriano, SP, Pittsburgh Pirates: Rise in Value A couple of years ago, it seemed like all hope was lost for the veteran left-hander. He was coming off a second half with Chicago that saw him give up 34 earned

Jeremy Hefner, SP, New York Mets: Rise in Value After recording his first win of the season in his ninth start, Hefner was wonderful again, showing good command in another quality start versus the rival Nationals. Hefner gave up a

Wade Miley, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks: Drop Player Miley lost his fourth straight start yesterday at Wrigley Field, giving up a home run to Alfonso Soriano in the first inning and then serving up two in the third to Scott Hairston

Mitch Moreland, 1B, Texas Rangers: Back on Track After 10 games without one, Mitch Moreland finally broke the dry spell and went yard off of Brandon McCarthy in the 3rd inning of yesterday's game, chasing McCarthy from the game. The

Albert Pujols, 1B, Los Angeles Angels: Proceed with Caution Pujols finished 3-for-4 yesterday in a losing effort versus the in-state rival Dodgers. He, along with teammate Josh Hamilton, struggled a bit in the early going, but steadily, the perennial All-Star

1. R.A. Dickey, SP, Toronto Blue Jays: Struggles Continue Dickey's woes carried on in his start against Baltimore, giving up six earned on nine hits, walking three and fanning just four in the process. He had won his previous two

Matt Harvey, SP, New York Mets: Hot Pitcher Harvey's scorching hot start was threatened after a throwing error allowed two to score in the bottom of the first inning. He recovered nicely, giving up just two more hits en route

Francisco Liriano, SP, Pittsburgh Pirates: Rise in Value Liriano's National League debut went a little better than anticipated. The 29-year old lefty tossed 5 1/3 innings yesterday afternoon, allowing one run on six hits while recording nine strikeouts in the

Anthony Rizzo, 1B, Chicago Cubs: Hot Batter The young slugger did a little bit of everything, finishing 3-for-4 last night with two HR and accounting for all four RBI for the offensively challenged Cubs in a 4-2 victory over

Hyun-Jin Ryu, SP, Los Angeles Dodgers: Rookie Watch The 26-year old rookie was great again yesterday, throwing seven innings of one-run ball with eight strikeouts and only three hits allowed. This is Ryu's fourth quality start of five total

Ike Davis, 1B, New York Mets The first two weeks of the season were eerily similar to last year for the 26-year old Arizona State grad, but Davis has something to build off of after jacking two long balls

Carlos Quentin, OF, San Diego Padres Quentin was all the talk yesterday when he charged Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke after being hit by a pitch and broke the pitcher's clavicle during the scuffle. Greinke is now looking at surgery

David Ortiz, DH, Boston Red Sox Ortiz began his rehab stint for Triple-A Pawtucket yesterday, going 2-for-3 with an RBI. He is aiming for 20 ABs in Triple-A before making his 2013 debut for the Red Sox. According to

Dexter Fowler, OF, Colorado Rockies Fowler continued his hot hitting today, going 2-for-4 with a run scored to raise his average to .364 on the season. Fowler's average has risen in each of the last three years prior, so

Kevin Youkilis, 3B, New York Yankees "Tha Youkahh" or just plain "Youk," as most of us know him by hit his first big fly of '13 to give the Yanks the lead in the 5th, but it was to

Minnesota Twins Player Projections: Justin Morneau - 1B Morneau is having and interesting Spring Training. He is peppering the ball out there, slugging .548 and driving in 11 runs in 42 at-bats, but with just one walk in that

New York Mets Outfield Update: Who is going to start? Before the start of training camp, the Mets outfield situation was completely up in the air. Even Manager Terry Collins was unsure of who would step up, so he

What to expect from the Newcomers for LAA The Angels made a big splash in Free Agency once again this offseason, landing a few big names such as Josh Hamilton, and Tommy Hanson, as well as solid end of the