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Yesterday, Cristopher Sanchez went 7 IP, 2 ER, 4 hits, zero walks, 8 Ks, ERA at 2.98, which is fine and dandy, but spelling it Cristopher is so Euro trash. Like you just stepped out of a Mazerati and you tossed me your keys, and I’m not valet, but simply a person selling balloon animals. With that said, Cristopher is carrying on the long, 3-month tradition of terrible pitchers being great and great pitchers being terrible. This is truly hilarious: His walk rate in the minors? 5.3 BB/9. El oh you gotta be kidding me el. In the majors, 1.3 BB/9. What, and I will pause now for emphasis, is going on? How can that be? It’s ludicrous. It’s Ludacris with What’s Your Fantasy, and Why Is He Not Getting Hit? Do MLB hitters just not know to hold for a walk? Could it be that simple? He’s barely a 8 K/9 pitcher, so if the walks are bad, everything about him is bad, but. Dot dot dot. Here we are. Streamonator hates his next start, and I have no confidence, but I would try him for his next start, because up is clearly down and vice versa. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Dean Kremer – 7 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 4.59. *wrapping finger around payess like it’s a phone cord* Think I should put in a l’claim for Kremer? Incredibly, his peripherals look more like a solid number three to four vs. a streamer, or Stremer, as the case may be.
Ryan Mountcastle – 1-for-3 and his 12th homer. Please, Yankees, find it in your heart to randomly trade for Mountcastle and make him your starting 1st baseman. Pretty, pretty please!
Jordan Westburg – 1-for-3 and his 1st homer. Dying for a trade to shake up the Orioles’ lineup, but Westburg, who is oddly east of me, isn’t going anywhere. We need Cowser and Mountcastle to be traded. If anyone’s got any genie wishes, that’s where your mind’s eye needs to be.
Pierce Johnson – Acquired by the Braves. Makes sense. You need to be a Brave soul to acquire a Pierce Johnson.
Nolan Jones – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 9th homer. For what it’s Cronenworth, I grabbed Jones in my RCL league, expecting after the deadline that he has a full-time job. Am I falling for the banana in the ol’ tailpipe? Yes, and Bud’s putting it in there.
Jeimer Candelario – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 16th homer, and his 48th homer since the break. Hearing that Jeimer is absolutely moving at the deadline. His lineup will only get better, so stash now. Also, Rockies and Nats meet for the:
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Tarik Skubal – 5 IP, 0 ER, 2 hits, zero walks, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.71. People keep asking about Skubal, so I will reiterate what I said two weeks ago. He is the best starter who is going to be appear from now until the end of the year on waivers. Will he have some ups and downs? Maybe. But so will anyone. No rookie is being called up better than you’re getting from Skubal.
Wilmer Flores – 1-for-4 and his 13th homer. He was a hot schmotato last week, and this week he’s saying, “Don’t forget about me, but also don’t trade me or I will cry.”
Ross Stripling – 6 IP, 3 ER, 10 hits, zero walks, 3 Ks, ERA at 5.77. Likely one of the best matchups for him, and his next isn’t bad, necessarily, but I still wouldn’t start him, and Streamonator agrees.
Luis Castillo – 7 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.02. Hard for me to say this, but Luis Castillo is an ace. Hard, literally, because I can’t say his name. Don’t mock me.
Kolten Wong – 1-for-1, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Wonder if that dong from Wong will get them to extend him.
Andres Munoz – 1 IP, 1 ER, ERA at 2.95, and the blown save. He only worked because Sewald had gone three of the last four, but then Sewald had to enter anyway, due to extras. If Sewald’s on the trade block, you’d like to see Munoz do some shutdown shizz.
Kenta Maeda – 6 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 8 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 4.62. His season-long ERA is misrepresenting how good he’s been. In April, he had a 9.00 ERA; in June, it was 1.80 (only 10 IP), and, in July, in 22 2/3 IP, he’s given up only 7 ER for an ERA of 2.78.
Adolis Garcia – Out after being hit on the hand on Saturday. I’d say he was plunked, but I’m not paying the nickel to Eric Plunk.
Jon Gray – 5 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 3.66. There’s always one shizzshow on my teams each day. Yesterday, Gray had the conch shell.
Josh Jung – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 20th homer. If he wins the AL ROY award, which he is the favorite to do, it will be way more because of April/May and not June/July.
Josh Smith – 1-for-4, 2 runs and his 4th homer. Fun fact! His full name is Captain Josh Smith, and he dated Pocohotschmotatas.
Yordan Alvarez – Wasn’t activated yesterday and the Astros said he won’t be speaking to reporters. What is he hiding!?
Chas McCormick – 2-for-3, 6 RBIs and his 13th homer, and 6th homer in July, as he hit around .350 in the month and .308 in June with three homers, i.e., he’s been hot for almost two months.
Michael Grove – 4 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 8 hits, zero walks, 6 Ks, ERA at 6.19. His pants were covered in pine tar the first four innings of the game when he was throwing a shutout, then the umps made him change his pants and he gave up two quick runs and was pulled. Weird, usually one changes their pants after the runs.
Max Muncy – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 25th homer, and 3rd homer in three games. He’s more batter than baby batter once again!
Paul Goldschmidt – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 17th homer, hitting .285. Au Shizz!
Nolan Arenado – 1-for-5 and his 22nd homer, hitting .290. I purchased a love letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer’s wife to him that was written on the back of a St. Ides 40 oz. label. Here, let me show you, I haphazardly put it by this open window–NOOOOO!!! Torenado!
Adam Wainwright – 5 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 7.31. I’m oddly very invested in Wainwright’s quest to get to 200 wins.
Christian Walker – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 21st homer. Maybe because they were in the same game, but, if I had to guess before last night, I would’ve assumed Walker was higher on the Player Rater than Arenado. Close, but not so.
Kevin Ginkel – 1/3 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 2.37. In a save situation, the DBags went to Andrew Chafin (2/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 4.24), and it strengthened the case for Ginkel.
Ha-Seong Kim – 2-for-3, 3 RBIs and his 13th and 14th homer. Kim is Him! As the kids say when they’re saying stuff I don’t understand. On today’s podcast (out later), BDon and I go over some trade scenarios we think could happen (or like to see happen), and I kept going to India being dealt to the Padres, which wouldn’t affect Kim, and now I’m saying it again because The Secret says this is how you make things happen.
Yu Darvish – 4 1/3 IP, 7 ER, ERA at 4.80. Why can’t good pitchers be good? In this essay, I will write out my answer using the tears that have fallen from my cheeks.
Liover Peguero – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer. Still an NL-Only play, but I am a cyclops with a monocle to get more from him.
Jack Suwinski – 3-for-5 and his 21st homer. Almost laughed when I saw him hitting leadoff, but then I remembered, he’s so good at OBP. Well, so good for a .230 hitter, and for today’s game.
Carlos Santana – 3-for-4, 4 RBIs and his 10th and 11th homer. Oye como yay!
Elly De La Cruz – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 6th homer. After E!’s home run, that went out of Whatever They Call It Now Stadium in Milwaukee, the police questioned his bat, asking if it knew that ball had a family.
Graham Ashcraft – 5 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners (4 BBs), 8 Ks, ERA at 5.64. This may or may not be accurate but it feels like Ashcraft is great for a month, then terrible for a month, and never just, like, normal.
Sal Frelick – 1-for-3 and his 1st homer. You should totally debate whether to pick him up until it’s too late.
Logan Allen – 7 IP, 4 ER, 7 hits, zero walks, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.39. Nothing about Allen was changed by this start, though it sure would’ve been nice if he was pulled giving up two random runs in the 7th inning.
Ryan Yarbrough – 6 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 1 K, ERA at 4.70. Yarbrough is a Streamonator call and sounds like a pirate asking for a cigarette.
Salvador Perez – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 17th homer, 2nd homer in the last two games. Sal putting some mother-effin cheese on it!
Maikel Garcia – 1-for-4 and his 4th homer. A’la The Beatles, “Maikel, not Josh Bell. These are words that go together well.”