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Paul Goldschmidt continues to thrive in his first season in New York. He added two hits and a walk on Wednesday, including his 13th double, while scoring the only run of the game.

Cal Raleigh, C, Mariners Cal Raleigh went 2 for 5 with two solo home runs on Tuesday. This brought his season total to 19, which is the type of power that is unheard of for a catcher. His 22.5% barrel...

Salvador Perez, C, KC Perez hit his 4th HR of the season against the Twins on Monday as he is trying to shake off one of the worst slumps of his career. The veteran catcher has reached 20 HR's in...

Tarik Skubal (SP- Tigers) Skubal threw a complete game shutout Sunday striking out 13 and allowing just 2 hits. This was perhaps the best pitching performance of the 2025 season as Skubal needed just 94 pitches for the gem. He...

Ronald Acuña Jr- OF- ATL- Hot- Acuña hit a homer on the first pitch he saw in his injury-delayed start to the 2025 season on Friday night. Last night he added another homer in his second game. Acuña hit 2...

Jacob Wilson SS ATH Good for 157th place on the leaderboard: Barrel 2.9% in the 10th Percentile. 26.6% Hard hit in the 5th percentile and then yet-to-be substantiated Bat Speed in the 1st percentile at 63 MPH. He's hitting .342...

Taylor Ward, OF, LAA Ward extended his hitting streak to eight games in a big way, going 3 for 5 with a homer and five RBI. The 31-year-old's newly implemented aggressive, pull-centric power approach has started to pay dividends in...

Bo Bichette (SS - TOR) - Bichette was 2-6 with 2 R and 2 RBI in the 14-0 shellacking of the Padres on Wednesday. The 27 year old came into the game hitting 271/346/529 during the month of May, and...

Brice Turang- 2B- MIL- Hot- Turang hit his 4th homer of the season yesterday, in 197 PAs. In 2024 he slugged 7 homers in 619 PAs. Turang has a .297/.372/.390 slash line. The average will likely be hurt by regression...

Agustin Ramirez (C-MIA) went 1-4 with a solo blast as he batted 2nd against the Cubs on Monday. The 23 year-old has quickly established himself as a key piece of the Marlins lineup as he's hit .267 with 6 homers,...

Drake Baldwin (C-ATL) stayed hot as he went 2-5 with an RBI and run scored against the Red Sox on Sunday. The 24 year-old backstop drew his second straight start at the expense of Sean Murphy as he's now hitting...

Jonathan Aranda (1B-TB) continued his productive start to the 2025 season as he went 2-4 with an RBI against the Marlins on Saturday afternoon. The 26 year-old is now batting .321 with 6 long balls, 21 RBI, and 19 runs...

Miguel Vargas (3B - CWS) - Vargas went 4-4 with a double and two homers in Friday's matinee at Wrigley, and he's 10-28 with 4 2Bs and 3 HRs over the past 7 games (with only 1 K to boot)....

Drake Baldwin-Braves-C Drake Baldwin was 3-4 with an RBI against the Nationals. Baldwin has been on fire in the month of May. He was hitting .579 with 2 HR, 4 R, 6 RBI, and 0 SB in a part-time role....

Ryan Weathers, SP, Marlins Ryan Weathers made his first start of the season after being activated off the injured list, allowing one run on two hits and one walk with five strikeouts over five innings. This was a great start...

Some pitchers get by on smoke and mirrors, pure gile, deception, craftiness, knowledge, experience...wait a minute: what I just described are the qualities that make quality pitching, something that StatCast, Stuff+ and all the spin rates in the world don't...

Kerry Carpenter, OF, Detroit Tigers Carpenter had a great day going 2-5 with 3 R, 1 BB on three hard hit balls. He's running a .434 xwOBACON, which is mainly driven by a 14.5 barrel rate and 21.7 LA. He's...

Wilyer Abreu (OF - BOS) - Abreu's 10th HR came as part of a 3-hit day against the Royals on Sunday, and the 25 year old is now slashing 279/380/551 for the season. He hits so many flyballs (approaching 60%)...

Joc Pederson- DH- TEX- Stats- Pederson had been the coldest of the cold this year. The Rangers installed Bret Boone as their new hitting coach this week and since then Pederson has gone 5-for-11, hitting his first homer of the...

Tarik Skubal (SP - Tigers) Skubal shut the Rangers down allowing 1 ER on 2 hits with 12 strikeouts over 7 innings. After a rocky start to the season where he surrendered 7 runs over his first two starts, Skubal...

Spencer Torkelson (1B-DET) was productive in Thursday's doubleheader with the Rockies as he went 5-9 with 2 doubles, 2 runs scored, and 4 RBI on the day. The 25 year-old continues to be a fantasy contributor as he's now batting...

Soto smacked a pair of home runs on Wednesday and also added a 110 mile-per-hour lineout to straightaway center. It's another example of Soto tearing the cover off the ball in his first year with the Mets, even if the surface stats don't support that.

Evan Carter, OF, Texas Rangers Carter made his 2025 debut, going 2-5 with R and K. While your leaguemates might hop on him trying to catch some post-hype sleeper effect, I'm personally hesitant. Carter was striking out at 25.6% in...

Sandy Alcantara, SP, MIA Alcantara was roughed up by the Dodgers again on Monday. Giving up five runs on six hits, one walk, and four Ks across 5.0 innings of work. The start came on the heels of a disastrous...

Triston Casas (1B-BOS) will most likely miss the rest of the 2025 campaign after being diagnosed with a ruptured left patellar tendon. The injury brings a premature end to a disappointing season for the 25 year-old slugger, who finishes with...

Dylan Cease SP SAN Never an easy watch, Cease was in Pittsburgh on Friday but as usual, it took 91 pitches for him to get through 4 innings. He walked in a run in the 4th inning on his 90th...

Juan Soto, OF, New York Mets Soto had his biggest day of the year going 2-3 with 2 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, BB on three hard hit balls. Soto is having a down year given his first round draft...

Tony Gonsolin, SP, Dodgers Tony Gonsolin looked impressive in his season debut, allowing three runs on six hits while striking out nine over six innings. He induced 17 whiffs in the night for a 40% whiff rate, with his slider...

Carlos Rodon (SP - Yankees) Rodon allowed 2 ER over 6 innings Tuesday, striking out 7. It was a great start as he carried a perfect game into the 6th. Rodon has been pretty solid over the past 3 starts...

Brandon Nimmo (OF-NYM) had a monster day at the plate against the Nationals on Monday as he went 4-6 with 2 HR, a 2B, 4 runs scored, and 9 RBI. The 32 year-old had started the 2025 campaign slowly as...

Kris Bubic-Royals-SP Kris Bubic went 5 IP and gave up 4 ER on 5 H, 3 BB, and 4 K's against the Astros. Bubic has a 2.25 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, and 3.29 SIERA through 36 IP. He is building off...

Eugenio Suarez- 3B- ARI- Hot- Suarez slugged 4 homers last night, 3 solo blasts and one with a man on. It extended his modest hitting streak to 4 games and he has scored in each one of those. Suarez got...

Carson Kelly C CHC Just like you figured: Carson Kelly kicking tail and taking names: .509 OBP and 6 bombs through 57 PAs. Great googly moogly! Let's look under the 30 year-old catcher's hood: 17% Barrel Rate, 63% Hard Hit...

Alex Bregman, 3B, BOS On Thursday night, Bregman hit his 5th home run of the season, going 2 for 3 with a walk and two RBI. He is currently riding a five-game hitting streak and has his average at a...

Reese Olson was absolutely dominant on Wednesday. The young right-hander threw 7.1 scoreless innings, allowing only two hits and one walk while striking out seven. Olson's slider/changeup were spectacular, generating 17 swinging strikes on those two pitches alone. He finished the game with a phenomenal 41% CSW rate. Through five starts Olson has been a completely different pitcher at home than on the road. He has allowed two runs in 18.1 innings at Comerica Park while giving up eight runs in nine innings away from Detroit. It's way too small of a sample size to allow that to play into lineup decisions, and it's worth noting his home/road splits were negligible last year. The bigger factor is that when he has his changeup going, he can be one of the best pitchers in the game.

Seiya Suzuki, OF, Chicago Cubs Suzuki had a great day at the plate going 2-5 with R, 2 RBI, 2 K on two hard hit balls. Suzuki is seeing the ball excellently, as his 45.6% LA Sweet Spot is 96th...