The time to trim the fat was probably about a month ago, but if you haven’t started making your moves of desperation, there is no time like the present. By the time this posts, we’ll have six games left to play with. That means that anybody who is hurt gets the axe. Any starter making their final start of the season gets thrown to the curb as well. It’s time to chase that one stolen base, that one win, that one save. Grab the guys with the best matchups, a full schedule, and feel free to stream any position you want. While the players listed below are the latest trends on ESPN, each league is different and each league’s standings are too – so you do you. Good luck and thanks for checking in on the waiver trends with us this season!
This week’s most added player was A.J. Pollock (+39.4%) who is coming off a somewhat disappointing series in Colorado where he went 3-for-16 with just one run scored. Personally, I had scooped him up for that series but have since dropped him for another bat. No mercy at this point. Pollock brings a little of everything and if it weren’t for his hand injury we’d probably be talking about a breakout season at 26 years old. Instead, he’ll be a nice sleeper target for 2015 and a player you’ll also want to target in keepers this offseason. Here are this week’s other big adds and drops in fantasy baseball…
Michael Cuddyer – 97% owned (+24%)
This one is kind of a no-brainer choice to go against the grain. While Cuddyer has been hot in the last week with three homers and ten runs batted in, he’ll draw only six games this week and all of them are away from Coors. A three game set at pitching friendly San Diego followed by a three game set in Los Angeles to finish the year make me wonder if Cuddyer is a player I want to trust off the wire. To take it one step further, the 35-year-old is no guarantee to start every game either. If you owned him over the course of his most recent hot streak, that’s a good call. I’d look elsewhere for a bat at this point though. TRASH.
Jake Marisnick – 15% owned (+15%)
J-FOH and Grey have been on Marisnick this week and for good reason. He’s got a great combination of power and speed with two homers and four steals in the last two weeks. The 23-year-old outfielder also has three multi-hit games in the last week. He’s exactly the type of hotness you want on your squad for the last handful of games. I’d also target him in keeper leagues this offseason since his tools could equate to a 20-20 season down the road. The Astros made a heck of a trade when they got Marisnick in the Jarred Cosart deal and he’s already starting to show his skills at the major league level. Somewhere a 2015 sleeper post is being drafted on Marisnick and I can’t say I would disagree. Like a dip I dropped Marisnick just before his hot streak in the Razzball Writer’s League, but hopefully I can recover. At only 15% owned Marisnick is still widely available and he has three games at both Texas and New York (Mets) to finish things out. TREASURE.
