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.
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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 […]
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.
Please, blog, may I have some more?One of the most glorious things about MLB is when a GM will say something like, “(Player’s name) wasn’t quite ready yet to be promoted, and we didn’t want to be aggressive with him, and have him suffer a setback in his development. The organization believes he’s getting close to a promotion now, and he […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?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 […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?With six weeks left in the regular season, it’s time to face the truth: a lot of people are kind of over this. We’re entering the dog days of the summer, and most fantasy managers at this point know where they stand, in or out, title contention or playing for next draft season. At this […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Rays are calling up Bob Seymour. Or Bobby Seymour, if you will. You likely will because Bob is one of those rare names that’s better casual. John or Johnny? I’m going to the John. Frank or Frankie? I gotta be Frank. Bob or Bobby? Bob on these–Sorry, I’m going Bobby. If you’re going by Bob, […]
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.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Major League Baseball has now played about 19 of 26 weeks this season, which means we have a large statistical basis, but not a whole season, to evaluate players for our fantasy baseball squads. With the trade deadline past and teams looking to call up prospects to see what they have next year, or plan […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?In our 103rd episode, Mike Couillard is joined by Duke Hill (@oriolebird.bsky.social), creator of Prospect Savant (@prospectsavant.bsky.social) to talk about all things about his site – how to use it for fantasy and card collecting scouting, neat features, and much more! You can find us on bluesky at @cardscategories.bsky.social, @mcouill7.bsky.social, and @jbrewer17.bsky.social. Email the pod at [email protected]. Links to […]
Please, blog, may I have some more?Nolan McLean will be called up on Saturday. An MLB GM looks at a calendar. There, Saturday is circled. MLB GM, “It just happens that this Saturday (player’s name) is ready. I know! What a crazy coincidence as it’s also the day when it’s in our best interest to call up a prospect.” MLB GMs […]
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