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Max Meyer (MIA - SP) - Meyer was brilliant Monday, throwing 6 shutout innings against the Reds and striking out 14 without walking a man. To illustrate just how filthy his slider was: there were 21 swings on the 40...

Brice Turang- 2B- MIL- Hot- Turang stole 3 bases yesterday, part of a franchise record 9 steals in the game. Overall he went 2-for-3 with a walk, sac fly, 3 runs and a RBI. Turang has 8 steals and seems...

Dylan Crews (OF-WSH) enjoyed what was easily his best game of the young 2025 season as he went 3-5 with a pair of 2-run blasts and a 2B against the Rockies on Saturday. The 23 year-old had REALLY struggled out...

Logan Webb, SP, Giants Logan Webb looked great on Friday, striking out 12 batters over six innings in an unlucky 2-0 loss against the Angels. He allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits and no walks. He induced 16...

Cal Raleigh (C-SEA) went deep again as he went 1-5 with a solo shot, a walk, and a stolen base against the Reds on Thursday. The 28 year-old slugger is now batting only .216 through his first 84 PA of...

Chris Bassitt, SP, TOR Bassitt was superb against the Braves on Wednesday, striking out 10 across 5 shutout innings, surrendering just 3 hits and 2 BB's. It's been an otherworldly start to the season for the veteran who now owns...

Kyren Paris, 2B, Los Angeles Angels Paris went 1-3 with two punchouts on a quieter night. He's been scorching hot to start the season slashing .366/.458/.805 with a .511 xwOBACON and 60.7% Hard Hit rate. This is really impressive given...

Dylan Crews (OF - WAS) - Crews is 5-47 with 5 singles and a 2:18 BB:K ratio after another 0-4 on Monday against former college teammate Paul Skenes, so I went in to check his Statcast data and plate discipline/contact...

Hunter Greene-Red-SP Hunter Greene went 7 IP and gave up 0 ER on 2 H, 1 BB, and 8 K's against the Pirates. Greene came into the game dominating (1.31 ERA, 0.63 WHIP, and 27% K:BB) and left with a...

Adley Rutschman C BAL Ok, so you want more homers from Adley...but he's squaring up the ball at 38% and only whiffing at a 13%, so as Axl Rose once said...Patience. Rutschman also sports an xOBP of .385 in concert...

Matt Olson- 1B- ATL- Cold- As in 2024, Olson is getting off to a slow start. After going 1-for-4 yesterday he is slashing .196/.339/.326. His EV of 94.0 and HardHit% of 54.5% are higher than in 2024. What's hurting him...

Bailey Ober, SP, Minnesota Twins On the surface, Ober had a solid game, going 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K. That being said, he allowed a whopping ten hard hit balls. Ober has an astronomical .462...

Ben Rice (1B/DH-Yankees) Rice continues his torrid start with his 3rd home run of the season. Now sporting a .306 batting average and 1.086 OPS, Rice has seemingly taken over as the Yankees everyday leadoff hitter. He displays characteristics of...

The phenom is growing up. James Wood stuffed the stat sheet with three hits in four at-bats, including two home runs and five RBI's. He walked once and scored twice. He raised his OPS 237 points on Tuesday.

Hunter Greene (P - CIN) - It's only three starts, but it certainly looks like Hunter Greene has taken a step forward this year. The control appears to be significantly improved, with a zone% up almost 15% from last season,...

Kris Bubic, SP, KC Bubic was dominant again against the Orioles on Sunday, allowing 1 ER on 5 hits 1 BB in 6.2 IP while striking out 8. This follows a similar performance from Bubic in his season debut when...

Kerry Carpenter (OF-DET) went deep again as he went 1-5 with a 2-run jack against the White Sox on Saturday. The 27 year-old is now off to a solid start to the 2025 campaign as he's now hitting .250 with...

Spencer Schwellenbach, SP, Atlanta Braves Schwellenbach was a fan-favorite pick in drafts this year as a sleeper pick, and deep gambler's pick for Cy Young if you're into that sort of thing. He did everything he could to validate both...

Hunter Brown-Astros-SP Hunter Brown went 6 IP and gave up 2 ER on 5 H, 0 BB, and 8 K's against the Twins. Brown has turned himself into one of the top starters in the game. He was dominant in...

Ivan Herrera, C, Cardinals Ivan Herrera had an explosive day at the plate, going 3 for 4 with three home runs, a walk, three runs, and six RBI. This is the type of performance many fantasy managers were waiting for...

King was dominant on Tuesday, striking out 11 batters in five innings while allowing only two hits and one walk. King finished with a 40% CSW rate, including nine whiffs on his four-seam fastball.

Elly De La Cruz, SS, CIN De La Cruz filled the stat sheet on Monday evening, going 4 for 5 with 2 HR, 1 2B, 7 RBI, 4 R, and 1 SB. It was not your average four-hit day, either....

Kyle Manzardo (DH-CLE) continued his hot start to the new campaign by going 2-5 with a 2-run bomb against the Royals on Sunday afternoon. The 24 year-old did not impress in 156 PA as he made his MLB debut a...

Nestor Cortes, SP, MIL Cortes' Brewer career could not have gotten off to a worse start, as he became the first pitcher in MLB history to give up homeruns on three consecutive pitches to start a ballgame. He finished the...

Juan Soto (OF - Mets) Soto hit his first home with the Mets Friday night. There isn't much more to be said about one of the best players in all of baseball. Soto has a chance for a huge season...

Tyler O'Neill, OF, Orioles Tyler O'Neill continued his Opening Day dominance, going 3 for 3 with a home run, two walks, three runs, and three RBI. It's shockingly the sixth straight Opening Day that O'Neill has homered on, which sounds...

Welcome Back! We have an exciting Opening Day 2025 on tap for Thursday, March 27. Cam Smith-Astros-RF The Astros made the announcement that 3B Cam Smith has made the roster, and the expectation is that he will play right field....

Zach Neto (SS-LAA) was out of the starting 9 again on Saturday night as the Angels faced the Rangers. He injured his right shoulder during a stolen base attempt on Thursday and did not play on Friday while manager Ron...

Corbin Carroll OF ARI Corbin Carroll's complicated 2024 season caused consternation across fantasy baseball. Next to zero production in the first half of the season followed by a return to his rookie form in the second half of the season,...

Oneil Cruz-Pirates-SS Oneil Cruz was 0-4 with a strikeout against the Brewers. Cruz has come on strong in the second half (.297 AVG with 7 HR, 30 R, 32 RBI, and 15 SB). On the year, he is hitting .263...

Javier Assad, SP, CHC Assad fell apart against the Phillies on Wednesday, allowing 8 ER's including 3 HR's in 4.1 IP, while striking out 3 and walking 3. Assad spent the first two years of his career far outpitching his...

Your 2024 American League Cy Young winner was in his element on Tuesday. Skubal shut the Rays out for seven innings, allowing only two hits and striking out seven en route to his 18th win.

Spencer Arrighetti (SP - HOU) - The childish part of me had a really hard time not titling this "Spencer Spaghetti". Arrighetti has, in the space of one season, gone from unusable to possible streamer to "use most of the...

Christian Walker- 1B- ARI- Stats- Walker lost the month of August due to an oblique strain but has put up decent numbers for the season, He is slashing .252/.337/.474 with 26 homers in 526 PAs. His homer per PA is...

Francisco Alvarez (C-NYM) went 2-4 with a homer and 3 RBI against the Phillies on Saturday. The 22 year-old backstop has underwhelmed in 2024, in large part because of a torn ligament in his thumb that kept him out of...

Adley Rutschman Adley went 0-4 with 2 Ks in an empty day at the plate. I pegged Adley as one of my favorite backstops to target and drafted him on plenty of teams this year. He rewarded me by having...