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# MLB Starting Lineups For Thu 8/21
ATH | BAL | BOS | CHC | COL | HOU | KC | LAD | MIL | MIN | NYM | NYY | SD | SF | STL | TB | TEX | WSH | ARI | ATL | CHW | CIN | CLE | DET | LAA | MIA | OAK | PHI | PIT | SEA | TOR
Welcome back to the Top 100 hitters, where the dog days of August bring both scorching heat and sizzling opportunity. With less than a quarter of the season remaining, this is the toughest stretch to rank players when an injury or cold streak can crater a hitter’s value in an instant. At the top, the heavyweights still reign. Shohei Ohtani has edged past Aaron Judge, setting the stage for a potential repeat MVP campaign. Ohtani leads the Dodgers with 43 home runs and 117 runs scored, while Judge counters with a .330+ average and 39 homers of his own. But scroll further down the list, and the landscape shifts. New names are surging, veterans are fading, and the rankings are in flux. As the fantasy playoffs loom, let’s dive into the chaos and uncover which bats are rising, falling, or waiting to make some noise.
The Cubs recalled OF Owen Caissie this week to help spell OF Kyle Tucker, who has been mired in a deep slump for a month. Since July 3rd, he’s slashing .186/.331/.239 over 33 games. There’s nowhere for Caissie to play in an everyday way, so this promotion feels a little strange even as Caissie has certainly earned it, cutting his strikeouts over the last few months, slashing .326/.420/.628 with 16 home runs in his last 59 games. All the Cubs fans I know are pretty doom and gloom about this season now that the team is nine games behind Milwaukee in the National League Central, but the Cubs are still in the thick of the Wild Card race. Perhaps Caissie can bring some hope with him whenever he steps up to bat. 

A little behind the scenes of the creation of this weekly piece, I draft most of it Friday afternoon and then edit Saturday morning as needed. Accordingly, most of the prospect-related bids below were estimated before any official call up news (Saturday morning update: I was able to capture the callup of our favorite rodent-named Baltimore outfielder…), so keep that in mind. Please, blog, may I have some more?

It’s Players’ Weekend everyone! You know what that means! No? You don’t know? Wait, you’re asking me? Uhh, it’s all weekend, and it’s for the players. What’s to know? They get to wear whatever they want, as long as it’s within reason, and it’s not flashy, or political, controversial, contentious or interesting in any way. Please, blog, may I have some more?

For many of us, when we have our eye on a prospect in the minors and see him raking all season, we are left waiting for the parent club to finally see what everyone else sees and promote him to the The Show. That was the case for the many dynasty league owners when it came to Chicago Cubs outfielder Owen Caissie. All he has done all season is smash the ball for home runs, yet week after week, he remained in Triple-A. Well, the wait is finally over as the Cubs promoted Caissie earlier this week and immediately had him in the starting lineup. Caissie is not the perfect prospect. If he was, he would have been up a long time ago. But he is a very good prospect whose playing time was blocked due to the amount of depth in the Chicago outfield.  Time to take a look at Owen Caissie and see why he is an up-and-coming dynasty player.

Weekly greetings, deep league friends. I hope everyone is staying cool and still has both a real life and a fantasy baseball team in the playoff hunt, as the last month or so of summer glides on by. I’m sure some free agent pools are picked more clean than others, but hopefully, there’s still the occasional new face on your waiver wire as MLB teams both in and out of contention continue to make changes to their major league rosters. Please, blog, may I have some more?

When players spend the first couple of months of the season falling well short of our expectations, fantasy players are often guilty of just refusing to consider those guys at all for the rest of the season. While it’s understandable to want to refuse to roster any player who really hurt you early, that kind of emotional dismissal might cause us to miss out on good rebounds in the second half that we can get some value from. The three players I’ll discuss today all started slowly for various reasons, and I saw lots of social media buzz about dropping these guys and never looking back. But we might want to take a second look to see if there is still value to be had.