Author Archive: Jeff Zimmerman

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In this article, I cover the players using CBS’s and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now, while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. I start players being added at CBS who started the week on less than 40% of rosters.

The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by hitters, starters, and relievers. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Thursday, I examined the lineups of the eight inactive teams. Today, the other 22 teams get their due.

American League

Angels

• Moisés Ballesteros (.667 OPS, 6 HR) started three straight games, including one at catcher (nine games at C this year). I think he could be a huge waiver wire target, but I’m worried about how well he hits. I suspect the Angels want him to focus on his catching and his bat will lag. We’ll see.

• Since Jo Adell was traded away, Jose Siri (.802 OPS, 6 HR) started three straight games, including one against a righty (he was only facing lefties). Read the rest of this entry »

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While I try to examine all the teams’ lineups at once, I wanted to spend more time with each team after the trade deadline. I started with the eight teams who were idle on Thursday since no new information would be coming from them.

American League

Astros

• Daulton Varsho started each game in center field while batting cleanup.

• Taylor Trammell (.720 OPS, 6 HR, 3 SB in 176 PA) started 10 straight games. Read the rest of this entry »

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American League

Athletics

• Zack Gelof will need ~20 PA before returning from the IL.

LF Zack Gelof
Injury: Right knee laceration
IL date: July 10 (10-day IL)
Expected return: Early August
Status: Began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Las Vegas on Aug. 4. Expected to require around 20 Minor League at-bats before returning.

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Yesterday we kept you updated on all the trades that went down and speculated to the best of our ability on what might come next. After all, every addition to the active roster requires someone getting shipped out or sent down; every player traded away needs to be replaced. Now we are starting to see what moves teams are actually making to clean up any messes created at the deadline.

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In this article, I cover the players using CBS’s and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now, while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. I start players being added at CBS who started the week on less than 40% of rosters.

The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference, grouped by hitters, starters, and relievers. Read the rest of this entry »

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A couple of “touted” prospects just got promoted, and here is my evaluation on each.

Quinn Matthews: Cardinals Starting Pitcher

I’m optimistic Matthews can eventually be a major league pitcher if he can throw strikes. Let’s start with the good before getting to his command. In each of the past two Triple-A seasons, the 25-year-old lefty has posted strikeout rates around 10.5 K/9. He’s attacking batters with this five-pitch mix (combined stats from ’25 and ’26).

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While the NFBC Main Event garners most of the attention, there are a handful of leagues with even larger entry fees ($2.5K to $15K). They are named Elite leagues (previously called High Stakes Leagues), and there are nine of them. With so much money on the line, these fantasy managers try to gain every advantage. Most of the time, these managers will be a week or two ahead of everyone else on their adds. Here are the players and some information on the ones added in five or more leagues. Read the rest of this entry »

Note: Any noted rostership rates come from the NFBC RotoWire Online Championship, the same rates we use on the FanGraphs Player Rater. For reference, these leagues are 12-team Roto leagues with 30-man rosters (2 C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, MI, CI, 5 OF, UT, 9 P) and weekly add/drops. This rate can be compared to other rostership rates found in this article.

American League

Angels

• Travis d’Arnaud and Yusei Kikuchi started their rehab assignments.

C Travis d’Arnaud
Injury: Right foot plantar fasciitis
IL date: May 7 (transferred to 60-day IL on June 3)
Expected return: Possibly July 31
Status: Played in his sixth rehab game with Triple-A Salt Lake on July 26, catching nine innings. Had his rehab assignment transferred to Single-A Rancho Cucamonga on July 28 and will catch back-to-back games before being activated. Read the rest of this entry »