Today is the first time that I can look at Billy Hamilton and say, “now is the time if he was available in a league I was in, I would add him.” Chances are some douche canoe has been sitting on him all year, playing him sporadically and reaping the semi-benefits of him. Watching him recently and correlating that into his last nine games, he has 9 stolen bases and looks to be turning the corner for the last 60 games of the year. Long term, I wouldn’t trust him to babysit my schnauzer, but the immediacy of his stats and the effect they can have on a your steals in impactful. The Reds are going to be sellers in a day or ten, and it would behoove them to play him everyday and let him run rampant and cause people headaches on the base paths like he is currently doing. Since the All-Star break, he has a unsustainable .390 OBP, which has garnered him the SB total that we should expect from him. The unfortunate thing is that it is like the cat calling the kettle black and the cat actually being black, because if he keeps up the .390 OBP, he is a HOF-bound and I will eat Grey’s hat. In the short term, go look at your waiver wire just to make sure that he isn’t available… if he isn’t, see if the owner is asleep at the wheel and throw him something stupid via trade. If he is available, grab him and reap the benefits for the next fortnight with your footie pajamas, kick back, and enjoy the new Jughead comic. This week in SAGNOF deets is after the bump, so do your sister a favor before I do a favor for your sister and click that button.
Cesar Hernandez – He is currently hitting .500 over his last four at a 9-for-18 clip. Add in the fact that he is named officially after a salad and he is the the greens keeping the cat in pajamas regular. He plays every single day and plays for a team not brazen enough to be stupid every now and again. Games against the Marlins, Braves, and Gigantes don’t scream anything, but if you need a middle infidel pick me up, but he is hot so why the heck not.
Trea Turner – I wish I had better news, but Zimm will be back on Tuesday and that song about Peter Pan that sounds dumb to everyone one but Peter or anyone from Pan sounds apropos right now.
Jose Reyes – As much as I want to enunciate his name like the “Outfield” song from the eighties, I just can’t make sense of it. Never the mind he is OPS’n .800 since his return with handfuls of steals (3), runs (9), and 3 taters to boot. Wilmer Flores can cry all he wants, but if he is truly back from his vacation far away go on over and pick him up.
Hernan Perez – Is on pace to have the most nondescript 20 steal season in the history of baseball… carry on.
Alex Colome – The box is coming back and the All Star in Colome has more trade value than ever right now and the Rays are going nowhere but a fishing expedition off the coast of Tampa. If you want a cuff or speculative add, and he is available, add the Box.
Aroldis Chapman – The trades this week are going to happen and the first domino to fall is the Cuban. Wherever he goes forms a ripple effect throughout the save industry. It is basically like a giant save queef that resonates through the waiver wire and only affects the people around you. Sometimes you have to be lucky to not be contracted by it.
