Jake McCarthy for Fantasy Baseball

Junior Caminero called up! Jasson Dominguez could be coming soon if the Yankees get sick of watching Verdugo pop-up to the 2nd baseman! Last week I gave you someone exciting who will be up shortly (if my sources are correct) in Christian Moore! This week which hot young exciting player do I have up my sleeve? Guess what? I’m not wearing sleeves! It’s a sleeveless frayed denim vest from Not Just Jorts. You like? Thanks! Jake McCarthy is not a call-up, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be exciting.

Stop laughing! Okay, it’s a little funny. So, they’re not all gems. There’s no guarantees, and that gets my no money back guarantee! Any hoo! Jake McCarthy was a sleeper because of his excellent speed, contact and likely solid batting average. The power was never going to be there Full Gangbusters or FuGa as people say (no one says). Right now, he’s also one of the hottest bats in baseball, so pretend he was just called up, call him Jakkon McMingguez and pick him up. Anyway, here’s some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:

SIKE! This post was released on Wednesday for Patreon members. It will be released all year early for Patreons, so if people are getting a jump on you, it’s because they paid the $10. Anyway, the Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell:

BUY

Adrian Del Castillo – Top 100 Hitters writer, Jeremy said last Sunday, “In (Del Castillo) second season at Triple A Reno, Adrian hit .319 with 24 homers driving a promotion on the heels of Gabriel Moreno’s groin injury. Moreno is expected to be out an extended time giving Del Castillo a chance to do what he has at every level of the minors in being a flat out hitter.” I’ll add two things: PCL is goofy for hitting, so grain of salt on his Reno numbers. Also, he was buried in prospects lists because of his defense; we don’t care about UZR like a bunch of LUZRs. He has a solid bat, so he could actually be useful for fantasy.

Jhonkensy Noel – I’m not a big fan of using other people’s nicknames. In real life? Sure. If you tell me you go by Bubbles, I will call you Bubbles. I will secretly imagine you’re a female bulldog in a tutu or a drug addict from The Wire, but I will call you Bubbles. For players? I don’t like using nicknames teams or players give themselves. They’re usually incredibly lame. “Say ‘All Rise’ for Judge.” Yeah, no thanks. Polar Bear for Alonso? I’m sorry, that’s corny. With that said, Jhonk’s nickname is Big Christmas and that is glorious. Xmas marks the spot on that one. Speaking of nicknames, sometimes I imagine Jon Jay reading his Wiki page and being like, “Razzball dot com called me The Federalist first and I have to continue to hear that crap?”

Andres Chaparro – Here’s what I said the other day, “He’s a contact-first, some power 1st baseman who looks like a Yepez clone. Yedeux? Ya damn right! Chaparo had a 19% K% in Triple-A and 23 HRs in 105 games, after being shipped over from the DBags at the deadline in the Floro trade. He’s a bit old for a prospect (25), but he was buried behind Christian Walker, so can’t fault him a ton. I’d look at him for a corner infidel in 15-team mixed or deeper.” And that’s me quoting me!

Brendan Rodgers – Rockies are such a boring team. They play in a stadium that’s like a moon team using aluminum bats with zero gravity, but the only good hitters are Brenton Doyle, Tovar and who’s hot this week? Rodgers ‘n Cave, which was one of the worst philharmonics I ever heard.

Joey Ortiz – As with everyone in this post, he’s been hot, but if you would’ve told me in March he’d get everyday at-bats all year, I would’ve been excited for him, and he’s instead been incredibly yawnstipating in general.

Jace Jung – Just gave you my Jace Jung fantasy. Trey Sweeney was also written up in that post — that’s right, all three Sweeneys!

Jose Caballero – Saw him on waivers this past FAAB period in one of my leagues, and I was tempted to go big, but then the little devil on my shoulder was like, “No one is paying attention that Caballero has a full-time job again, you can sneak him through for a $1,” and I did not get him for a $1, stupid Shoulder Devil!

Shay Whitcomb – Being called up by the Astros. He led the minors in homers in 2023 with 35, and he has 25 HRs this year with 26 steals. Oh, and he’s hitting .293. A middle infielder with those numbers? How? Why? Where’s he been? Well, he struggles with Ks and it’s what happens when you’re behind Pena and Altuve on the depth chart. Not even sure where this soon-to-be 26-year-old plays now, unless there was an injury we don’t know about.

Junior Caminero – Just gave you my Junior Caminero fantasy. It was written with my toes.

Jordan Walker – Here’s what I said when he was recalled, “There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. He had a 44.4% ground ball rate in Triple-A this year with nine homers in 78 games. Looking at his build, he should have 45 homers in Triple-A and just pound everyone. He was better recently (15-for-43, 3 2B, 3 HR since Aug 1) with a new open stance, and I could see grabbing him everywhere in case he figured his shizz out. I’m dubious until we see it.” And that’s me quoting me! Since then, we’re seeing Walker platoon, so I’ve become more dubious.

Derek Hill – His name is Generic Athlete Name. “Hey, what’s going on with Derek Hill? He play well?” “Uh, remind me again if he’s playing football, basketball…darts?” So, Hill appears to be a Quad-A player who the Marlins are playing because they’re a Quad-A team, and Hill’s been hot.

Alex Call – I expanded Call’s player page to show his minor league stats, and the page gave me a notification that it was taking a long time to load, would I like to wait? I waited. For ten minutes and it was still loading.

Jo Adell – From Call to Adell, what is this, the video for Hello? That one was for the ladies. Speaking of minor league stat pages that go on forever, Adell started in 2017. If he were on a team that could develop players, he would’ve been good in 2019, but, here we are, and supposedly he’s figured his shizz out. I’m more dubious than I was in Walker’s blurb.

Jake Cave – You might say to yourself, why would a 110 loss team like the Rockies be giving a 31-year-old like Cave at-bats and you obviously have never heard of Bud Black.

Jesus Sanchez – From Cave to Jesus, who am I, Plato doing an allegory? Prolly, right? I mean, no, but also: Prolly!

Parker Meadows – Sucks to see him struggle to hit .200, because the power and speed are legit.

Wilyer Abreu – Ever since I said something like Wilyer Abreu is boring, he’s been hot. And that’s me paraphrasing me!

Mickey Moniak – Grade A name on a Grade D player. I wonder if the Angels’ Front Office has ever seen Statcast dot com. Moniak’s page got the blue to make you go brr.

Kerry Carpenter – Gave you my Kerry Carpenter fantasy. Though, it was mostly a bitchfest about Kirby.

Luis Severino – This is a Streamonator call, like the call it makes to AppleCare.

JP Sears – This is also a Streamonator call. “Do you have earbuds for metal ears?”

Daniel Hudson – Think he’s the Dodgers’ closer, but also think the Dodgers don’t have a closer. Like my shirt says, “It makes sense if you don’t think about it!”

Lucas Erceg – It’s kinda wild that there are so many teams in playoff contention with no closer. The playoffs are gonna be such a shizzshow.

Justin Martinez – Speaking of playoffs, DBacks are making a run, and Martinez is about to become a household name. His stuff is gonna open eyes. Sadly, because it’s gonna hurt his price next year.

Seranthony Dominguez – What do you get when you have a team that has Yennier Cano, who would be their best closer, but refuses to use Cano as their closer? A closerfudge.

Will Vest – Will Vest, Will Vest, put my love to the test? Or Tyler Holton which doesn’t rhyme with anything like orange. Or maybe it’s Jason Foley. Though, I’m Joe Exotic in that I’m mostly ignoring the Tigers’ pen.

SELL

Alec Burleson – Give the Cards a promising outfielder and they’ll turn him into trade bait for a 34-year-old journeyman starter so that promising outfielder can make good on another team. I had such hope for Burleson about three weeks ago, but, of course, they needed to get Pham and bring back Walker and now Burleson went from promising to future Rays’ outfielder. Remember, this is a drop not a sell, unless you’re in a keeper. There, then (there then?) by all means go to the Fantasy Baseball Trade Analyzer and do what you do.

Brandon Nimmo – On the 30-day Player Rater, Nimmo is as bad as guys who have only played a handful of games all month, i.e., Betts is already better, better, he Betts than Nimmo.

Luis Robert Jr. – If Ohtani were traded to the White Sox, I bet he’d still go 40/40, and that’s runs/RBIs. On top of the Sux sucking, Lou Bob has also been legitimately not good. I don’t know what’s going on with him. You can’t get motivated when your team is on pace to lose 125 games? Geez, lame. If you’re in a dynasty league, then I wouldn’t trade Robert for a ticket to see a community production of Twisters, which is members of the PTA playing Twister, but I would go to our Fantasy Baseball Trade Analyzer and explore options.