Nathaniel Lowe- 1B- TEX- Stats- Lowe went 1-for-2 with a homer and 2 walks. He is slashing .281/.370/.444 with 11 homers this season. In the 7 games since the All Star Game, Lowe has gone 11-for-24 with 2 homers, 9 runs, 5 RBI, and 4 walks. Last year he slashed .339/.399/.566 with 15 homers and has seen better second half results in each year of his career. So far in 2023 he is continuing this trend.
Ryan Jeffers- C- MIN- Stats- Jeffers hit his 5th homer of the season last night. All of them have come against RH pitching. He has hit .283 against RH pitching this season in 118 PAs. He has become a legitimate streaming option in games where he is starting against righthanders.
Matt McLain- SS- CIN- Hot- McLain added to lots of columns last night. He went 2-for-4 with a walk, grand slam, steal, and 2 runs in addition to the 4 RBI from the slam. McLain is slashing .301/.367/.519 with 9 homers and 8 steals in 264 PAs in his rookie season. He has certainly been helped by a .396 BABIP. His xBA is .266. He has a SwStr% of only 8.8%, Contact% of 78.2%, and Chase rate of 26.5%, so his plate discipline has been solid, despite a 26.9% K%. McLain's EV of 89.0 and HardHit% of 40.9% are decent. His BB% of 7.6% is well below his minor league numbers so that will likely go up. McLain's average will likely drop with regression to the mean but his power looks good and his OBP will not sink as much as his average as his BB% is likely to increase.
Kyle Higashioka- C- NYY- Rise Value- With Jose Trevino done for the year, Higashioka will get the bulk of the time behind the plate for the Yankees, at least for now. He is slashing .227/.262/.377 with 5 homers in 165 PAs. Higashioka has a 37.7% chase rate, 70.7% Contact%, and 15.4% SwStr% so his plate discipline is suspect. His EV of 90.0, Barrel% of 11.9%, and HardHit% of 49.5% indicates that he can do something when he does make contact. Higashioka does show power potential.
Lars Nootbaar- OF- STL- Stats- Nootbar's .256 average is well above the .228 he hit in 2022. That can be attributed to a rise in BABIP from .248 to .324. However, Nootbaar has seen a drop in power. He hit 14 homers in 347 PAs last year but has just 6 in 293 PAs in 2023. Nootbaar's EV has dropped to 89.7 from 91.7 last year. His HardHit% has gone from 46.0% to 41.1%. His Barrel% has dropped from 12.1% to 8.1%. The biggest factor is that when Nootbaar hits the ball he hasn't been getting it in the air as much. His LA was 10.7 in 2022 and is 4.5 this year. Nootbaar's GB% has risen from 43.8% to 54.4% and FB % has dropped from 38.8% to 26.4%. He's also pulling the ball less, with a Pull% of 34.6% after being 42.4% last year. Nootbaar hasn't lived up to the hopes for him when the season started.
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