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Buying low is harder than buying high. Yeah, I said it. Buying low means the other person has to cut bait after being so pot-committed. Then, the person buying low has to put aside the player they are getting has been garbage, and they might be better off with getting a guy off waivers. Dansby Swanson (3-for-3, 4 RBIs and his 11th and 12th homer, hitting .271) yesterday made buying low harder or easier? In theory, it should make it easier, because those signs of life should allow the person who has him an easy way to unload, but signs of life usually works the opposite way. The person with Swanson has been pounding their team’s chest, hoping to revive it, and now: The EKG line shoots up and you want them to sell him? One thing is for certain, Dansby Swanson is going to be so forgotten for 2024 fantasy baseball, he’s gonna be basically free, unless he turns his whole season around. Can he? Absolutely. His 1st half last year was one of the best. He’s capable of continuing to shoot up that EKG meaning I’d buy low, if that were possible, which it’s not. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Psyche! Before we get into the roundup, just wanted to announce we started a MLB Lineups page. RIP Baseball Press, but we must move on, and, Frank Voila!, we have. Our lineups page is more geared towards fantasy. It has projected start%, actual and projected lineup spots and all players who NOT in the lineup. Plus, it’s downloadable. It’s subs-only. Anyway II, the roundup:
Christopher Morel – 2-for-4 and his 16th homer, hitting .272. Shoot, I missed the 162-game mark for his career. Oh, well, it’s close enough. Morel’s career in 171 MLB games: 32 HRs, .247 and 13 SBs. If you get that from a 3rd rounder, you’re happy. Forget a guy off waivers. Okay, so he didn’t do that this year, but you get my point.
Nico Hoerner – 3-for-5, 2 runs and a slam (7) and double legs (23, 24). It’s not a homer, it’s a little jack, Hoerner (and two steals).
Yoan Moncada – 0-for-3, 1 RBI as he was activated from the IL. What’s more Yoan Moncada than being activated from the IL? Oh, he also was robbed of a grand slam. The entire White Sox organization is just a slow, confused shake of the head.
Michael Kopech – 5 IP, 4 ER, 10 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.44. If it’s possible, he looked worse than the line. White Sox changing their name to the Sarcastic Chef’s Kisses.
Enrique Hernandez – Traded back to the Dodgers. He should have to come to Los Angeles like everyone else, on a bus, carrying a backpack, telling the person in the seat next to him, “I heard the Hollywood sign is made of cheese.” Then stare out the window for 57 hours, while wearing a diaper, because the bathroom is out of order. That’s how one comes to Los Angeles! If you come to LA any other way, you’re a tourist. So, Enrique returns to where it all started, which is a big miss for those hoping the trade deadline would bring new matches for Immaculate Grid, and it doesn’t help his fantasy value either. Makes for an interesting NL-Only flyer, where I will be bidding, but not much else.
J.D. Martinez – 1-for-4 and his 25th homer. Just Dong because what else are you just gonna do?
Bo Bichette – 4-for-6, 2 RBIs and his 17th homer, hitting .312. Just mentioning on the off chance Bdon is reading to piss him off.
Ramon Laureano – 0-for-1 as he was activated from the IL, and didn’t start. He reminds me of Alex Sanchez, as in a random guy who didn’t seem to benefit from PEDs even though he was busted for them, but it turned out he absolutely must’ve benefited, in retrospect.
Pete Alonso – 3-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 27th and 28th homer, hitting .218. Albombso-so!
Daniel Vogelbach – 1-for-3 and his 7th homer, hitting .226. Fun fact! A Vogelbachwagon is German for when you have a caboose the size of a car.
Justin Verlander – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.24. Verlander’s going to have a sub-3 ERA this year with awful peripherals, isn’t he? Rhetorical!
Domingo German – 6 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 4.77. He absolutely was cheating for his perfect game. C’mon. I don’t care it was the A’s. Let’s be real here. He’s terrible.
George Kirby – 4 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 3.49 vs. Pablo Lopez – 7 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 4.13. This matchup was billed in the pregame as, “Well, I know Kirby will be great, but worried about Pab-Lo.” Then after the game, it was billed as, “Why can’t anything be predictable, c’mon!”
Julio Rodriguez – 2-for-5, 3 RBIs and his 15th and 16th homer. Wasn’t fully paying attention when I was typing and I wrote his name at first as Julio Robespierre. Ha!
Cade Marlowe – 2-for-3, 2 runs and a slam (1) and legs (2). Oh, I can’t believe this, Cade Shakespeare is taking credit for this game. With Kelenic out, Marlowe has taken over left field. He’s got great power (11 HRs in 69 Triple-A games) and speed (25 SBs), but looks like he might hit .190.
Manny Machado – 1-for-2 and his 20th homer. Macho, macho, Machado!
Juan Soto – 1-for-4 and his 20th homer. Sexy Dr. Pepper became the 12th player in history to have five 20+ homer seasons through age 24. Giancarlo and Tony Conigliaro are the only non-Hall of Famers of the 12, or future HOFers, and, sometimes late at night, I think Giancarlo can be a HOFer still.
Charlie Morton – 3 2/3 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 3.57. Would’ve been much worse if the Red Sox didn’t hit into one of the saddest triple plays I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t so much good defense, as the base running looked like a blooper reel, no relation to the Braves’ mascot.
Nick Pivetta – 5 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.11. He’s great in relief. Does it make any sense? It doesn’t need to. Just grab him.
Andrew Abbott – 6 IP, 0 ER, 8 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 1.90. Abbott is absurd. Also: Just gave you my Andrew Abbott fantasy.
Will Benson – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 7th homer, three homers in the last week. The hot schmotato continues with Robert Guillaume.
Merrill Kelly – 6 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.12, as he was activated from the IL. Sonavabench! Was a bit worried that he missed about a month, but solid sign, and ready to collect some low-strikeout, solid ratio games.
Steven Matz – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 4.34. Matz heard that all you needed to be good was to be terrible and was like, “Wait a minute! I’m terrible! I can be randomly great!”
Tyler Glasnow – 7 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 3.36. What can’t Cillian Murphy do?
Brandon Lowe – 3-for-4, 2 runs and his 11th homer. Picked Lowe up recently in my RCL league, so I just went to look at his recent stats, and now I’m wondering why I picked him up. He has 2 homers in the last two months while hitting .200-ish. I think I have to drop him, and then he will definitely get schmotato-ey.
Bryce Harper – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 5th homer. I know he missed some time, but he’s going to end the year with, like, 12 homers on the year, and where the hell is he going to be drafted next year? I guess in the top 30, as if this season never happened, but do you have the pants grapes to jump right back in?
Kyle Gibson – 6 IP, 2 ER, 4 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.68. Streamonator doesn’t like his next one, but, if being honest, I’ve been starting Gibson most weeks without even thinking about it. When Darvish’s got a 4.80 ERA, how ya gonna discriminate against Gibson?
Ryan O’Hearn – 1-for-4 and his 9th homer. He’ll be in this week’s Buy column, because of course. It’ll be available today on Patreon.
Aaron Civale – 8 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 2.54. Now in 10 starts since his IL stint, he has a 2.47 ERA in 58 1/3 IP, and his velocity has been absolute garbage. Next year’s pitcher rankings are gonna be so wacky, after we have a full year’s worth of stats of terrible pitchers being great and vice versa. Civale is not good. I’m sorry. Verlander is the best Mets pitcher, according to ERA, and the one with the worst peripherals. Civale is the best Guardians’ pitcher for ERA, and with worst peripherals. Go around the league and it’s like this everywhere. Like the movie Tenet, it makes zero sense.
Bo Naylor – 2-for-3, 3 RBIs and his 3rd and 4th homer, as he hits 9th and .211. Ranking Naylor brothers is pretty easy at this point. Need to potentially rerank when brother Willy is promoted from Class-A Singleman.
J.P. France – 7 IP, 0 ER, 7 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 2.87. Thinking about a team where I have Andrew Abbott, Civale and France and cackling like a loon at the moon, until a neighbor calls the cops, suspicious there’s a werewolf next door. You can look at the Streamonator, but if a guy has a sub-3 ERA, I’d just start him until regression.
Kyle Tucker – 2-for-4 and a slam (18) and legs (19). He’s taking this Mr. H2H thing so seriously he’s now homering and stealing the same amount.
Joey Meneses – 3-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 7th homer. Opening your fantasy team where you have Joey, and yelling, “Hey, someone got their Meneses!”
Justin Lawrence – 1 IP, 3 ER, ERA at 2.94, and his 2nd blown save. Believe he’s the Rockies’ closer, but I don’t even know if Bud Black knows that for sure.
Ezequiel Tovar – 2-for-5, and his 10th homer. Okay, but what about Nolan Jones who now has a starting job without Bryant around!? Oh you didn’t hear…
Kris Bryant – Hit the IL with a fractured left index finger. His latest injury means he won’t play 162 games in two seasons combined, after signing a seven-year, $182 million deal. What’s also true, it’s so big, you can see the Rockies’ brain from outer space.
