Chris Davis, Baltimore Orioles - Chris Davis had a monster game off Braves' starter Julio Teheran with two homers and five RBI in the Orioles' win. He quietly has posted some nice counting stats in a rebound year, with a lot of those coming in the last seven days. In the last week, he's launched four homers and driven in 12 runs and has two games of 4+ RBI in that span. Davis' reverse splits are staggering has he is hitting .286 against lefties and .222 against righties, but that's thanks in part to a .348 BABIP off of southpaws. His BABIP over the course of his career is pretty much the reverse of this season, so as he turns it up a notch against righties he likely won't continue this kind of success against lefties.
Curt Casali, Tampa Bay Rays - There may be no hotter player in baseball than Curt Casali (WHO?). His career high for homers in the minors is eight in a single season, and he now has seven in his 55 plate appearances this season. He now has back-to-back two homer games and has hit six homers in his past seven games. This kind of production obviously isn't sustainable as we are approaching Mike Trout territory for a seven game stretch, especially for a guy with the lack of a track record like Casali. He could continue to be a nice DFS option though with Justin Verlander and Eduardo Rodriguez as his next two starters that he faces.
Wade Miley, Boston Red Sox - After back-to-back solid outings from Wade Miley, he returned to his normal Red Sox form Tuesday with seven earned runs in 5.2 innings against the White Sox. Miley continues to struggle with the Sox with his BB/9 staying the same and his K/9 dropping by 1.5. His swinging strike rate has dropped and he's actually generating more chase swings than any previous year besides 2012. But with that increase in his chase rate, he's seen an 8% increase in contact on those swings. Paired with that, his hard hit rate has dropped by almost 10% and he may just be unlucky so far, but he's been consistently unlucky then. So either he's cursed or just bad, either way it's hard to get Miley in there for every start.
Chris Young, New York Yankees - Chris Young, like every Yankee batter, had a huge game against the Rangers with a 3-for-6 game while launching a his 12th homer and five RBI. Martin Perez started the game for the Rangers and Wandy Rodriguez relieved him which helps explain Young's big game as he was triple slashing .362/.413/.670 against southpaws with seven of his twelve homers. He is a huge DFS play every night that he faces a lefty, but he's terrible against righties so he shouldn't even be looked at in those situations. It also limits his value in weekly lineup leagues, while leagues with daily transactions/lineup management can really use Young to their advantage.
Melky Cabrera, Chicago White Sox - Melky Cabrera might be the hottest hitter in baseball not named Curt Casali, as he now has a ridiculous six straight multi-hit games and seven games overall. He has seven doubles over this span, and two homers which both came on 7/23. Although it's an 11 game sample size, he's off to a .362 start in the second half with two homers, which is half of his homers in the first half. He hit .261 in the first half, but only 17 hits went for extra bases while he already has 12 in the second half. We've seen him capable of having huge spurts like this, so until it ends I'll have to say that I'm a believer in the Melk Man.
Follow me on Twitter @jsperry1991
This is just a small sample our our daily analysis, join our member area for more premium content: http://www.fantistics.com/join/join.php3
