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Please see our player page for Jarren Duran to see projections for today, the next 7 days and rest of season as well as stats and gamelogs designed with the fantasy baseball player in mind.

The Top 100 hitter landscape continues to move as players separate themselves not just through surface results but through the combination of opportunity, underlying skill growth and the way opposing pitchers adjust to them without finding answers. When that starts to happen the rankings are forced to react more quickly than the traditional pace of evaluation allows. At the same time there are established names who are not necessarily struggling but are no longer clearly separating from the pack. In many cases the performance is still useful but the profile has become easier to match or replicate across the player pool. That creates subtle but important downward pressure in a format where replacement level keeps creeping higher every season. There is also a growing group of younger hitters whose roles are still taking shape at the major league level. Some are earning more consistent playing time and showing signs that their skills may translate sooner than expected. Others are still working through adjustment periods where the outcomes are mixed but the underlying changes in approach or impact quality are becoming more noticeable. These are the types of players who can change the shape of rankings quickly once things click. Taken together this week is less about dramatic leaps or collapses and more about clarity in the rankings for the rest of the season. The difference between staying put and moving up or down is becoming less about reputation and more about who is actually controlling at bats on a daily basis.

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I was expecting regression from Munetaka Murakami. There’s just no way he could keep up with what he was doing. You don’t strikeout that much and not slump tremendously. Regression I was prepared for. Regression I could handle. Not an injury! Not like this! Nooooooo!!! I screamed into the abyss and waited and waited. Finally, […]

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Royce Lewis sent to Triple-A. Hmm, let’s see the Twins’ top hitting prospects of the last few years: Luke Keaschall, Brooks Lee, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Matt Wallner, Spencer Steer, Edouard Julien, Drew Gilbert, Trevor Larnach, Royce Lewis, Jose Miranda, Ben Rortvedt, and Redfin Smart Shopper, Alex Kirilloff. Quite the track record. It just so happens that […]

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People will tell you with a straight face that pitching is predictable. Is it though? A pause so distant that the person pausing stops to watch the entire coastline recede and homes being forced to move back 500 feet off the shoreline. I say pitching is unpredictable. I don’t say you don’t need top pitching. […]

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