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Michael Conforto (+29%) was the most added player in fantasy baseball this past week. The New York Mets have been staggering along on offense this season (29th in MLB in runs scored), which hasn’t exactly made life easy for their impressive trio of starting pitchers (Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, and Noah Syndergaard) thus far. Despite this offensive ineptitude, they are currently just two games behind the NL East leading Washington Nationals in the standings. Ownership doesn’t seem to be interested in significantly adding to the team payroll in order to improve the offense, so what’s a playoff contending team to do? Why not call on your stud prospect for a boost down the stretch? Sounds nice and cheap to me!

Enter Conforto. The 22-year-old former first round draft pick has been successful at each stop in the minor leagues, but logged just 197 plate appearances above single-A ball prior to his MLB promotion. However, he’s certainly hit the ground running in the very early going, producing a .444/.583/.667 triple slash line in his first three MLB games, including an impressive 4 hit outing against the Dodgers in just his second career big league game. Unfortunately, Steamer isn’t terribly impressed, projecting a .243/.297/.383 line with 4 homers and 1 steal in 143 plate appearances for the rest of the 2015 season. The early book on him seems to be that he has plus power and plate discipline for his age, but offspeed stuff, particularly breaking balls, can give him problems. He’s definitely worth a lottery ticket, but you probably shouldn’t expect Conforto to be a fantasy stud immediately.

Here are a couple of other significant adds and drops in fantasy baseball over the past week:

Jung-ho Kang – 35.3% owned (+17.6%)

The prized free agent acquisition of the Pittsburgh Pirates this past offseason has done an admirable job in his first MLB season, especially when factoring in his ability to fill-in at both the 3B and SS positions while Josh Harrison and Jordy Mercer have been on the shelf. In 292 plate appearances this season, Kang has produced a .286/.363/.413 triple slash line with 33 runs, 5 homers, 31 RBI, and 5 steals. He’s produced his best month of the season in July, posting a line of .347/.420/.514 with a career low 17.3% K%. As solid as that is, his 4.9% BB% in July is his lowest of any month of the season, and he’s 0 for 3 in steal attempts this month as well. In fact, Kang has hit just 2 homers and stolen just 1 base since the beginning of June. An unsustainable .421 BABIP is behind that nice looking batting line this month as well, and while he does possess some solid pop in his bat, a 24.9% FB% isn’t going to result in too many balls going over the fence. TRASH.

C.J. Cron – 14.6% owned (-8.4%)

Guess who’s been the best hitter in baseball during the month of July? Mike Trout. Fooled you! Cron isn’t that far behind though, producing a .390/.413/.661 triple slash with 4 homers, 10 runs, and 12 RBI in 63 plate appearances. This week, the Angels are on the road where Cron does his best work (.303/.330/.483 with 4 homers in 94 PA). He’ll probably sit in at least one (and probably two) of the games in the Dodger series due to the lack of a DH, but if you’re looking for a corner infielder or utility player with power in the second half of the season, Cron fits the bill. TREASURE.