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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 »

8/7/26

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2-START PITCHERS FOR WK21 (August 10th)

• AUTO-START: Tarik Skubal, Paul Skenes, Dylan Cease, Bryan Woo, Sonny Gray, Eury Pérez, Logan Henderson, Christian Scott, Ranger Suarez
• Sean Burke CWS – vs CIN (30), @ DET (6)
• Reid Detmers LAA – vs TEX (7), vs KC (18) 7:00
• Ryan Weathers NYY – vs SEA (29), @ TOR (30) 9:58
• MacKenzie Gore TEX – @ LAA (15), @ ATH (10) 15:20
• Casey Mize SDP – vs MIL (5), @ CLE (20) 17:00
• Trevor Rogers BAL – @ MIN (25), @ TB (24) 22:14
• Freddy Peralta TB – @ ATH (18), vs BAL (13) 26:16
• Tanner Bibee CLE – @ DET (6), vs SD (19) 29:29
• Dean Kremer MIN – vs BAL (13), vs PHI (25) 31:35
• Noah Cameron KC – @ LAD (6), @ LAA (15) 33:55
• Hunter Dobbins STL – vs PHI (25), @ CHC (9) 37:42
• Hayden Wesneski HOU – @ SF (12), vs SEA (11) 39:20
• Bryce Elder ATL – vs NYM (28), vs ARI (29) 41:55
• Andrew Painter PHI – @ STL (24), @ MIN (8) 44:31
• Nick Lodolo CIN – @ CWS (11), vs MIA (13) 48:09
• Cody Bradford TEX – @ LAA (15), @ ATH (10) 51:10
• THE REST – 52:27
• Drew Anderson 앤더슨 DET – vs CLE (20), vs CWS (15)
• Jacob Lopez ATH – vs TB (24), vs TEX (7)
• Jameson Taillon TOR – vs BOS (27), vs NYY (14)
• Gabriel Hughes COL – @ ARI (29), @ SF (12)
• Ryan Johnson LAA – vs TEX (16), vs KC (21)
• Jake Irvin WSH – vs CHC (9), @ NYM (28)
• Blade Tidwell SFG – vs HOU (4), vs COL (22)

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Approximately 56 minutes of joyous analysis.

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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 »

Discipline at the plate is often a huge driver for success over the course of a season. From a fantasy perspective, it can be difficult to utilize outside of just an overall gauge for a hitter’s success.

I saw an interesting exchange on plate discipline data relating to zone and outside zone swing percentages as an indicator for a potential breakout. A post highlighting patience as the potential reason behind Pete Crow-Armstrong’s MVP-caliber season noted his O-Swing% is down to a career low 34%. Read the rest of this entry »

When scanning the starting pitchers who have been performing well on player raters, we often find high-end players mixed with late-round picks or waiver wire options. Whenever we find pitchers performing well or struggling, the first question should be why. Often, breakout performances involve a mixture of luck and skill.

Meanwhile, there could have been a pitch mix change or an actionable adjustment in their profile, which includes their stuff and command grades. Today we’ll look at four starting pitchers having recent success, dive into what could be driving that success, and examine whether it’s sustainable moving forward.

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After extending my stay at Prospect Station, I have arrived at the next leg of my travels: Aging Curve Junction. I acknowledge that this metaphor is somewhat tortured, but I do think it gestures toward something genuine. A junction is a place where two paths of travel meet, and a dynasty ranking system requires merging the hypothetical of prospects and the real-life production of current big-leaguers over a period of future years. For our purposes, the bridge between those links is the aging curve.

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Kevin McGonigle is running away with the AL Rookie of the Year award.

On the Agenda: 

1. Quick Hits
2. Various News and Notes
3. Streaming Pitchers

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• Daily SP Chart archive
• 2-Start podcast episode ranking
• SP Rankings (last update: 7/24 | next: September)

Welcome to the Daily SP Chart, click here if you’re new to get an idea of what I’m doing with these rankings.

• Zebby in for Prielipp, dropped to a shaky 1-x reco. as MIL is much better vR.
• Drohan broke his 4 QS streak in a tough 5 ER start v. COL but then immediately started a new streak with 6 IP/2 ER at LAA in his most recent outing.
• Really eager to see if Gausman can shave that .318 with one of the best defenses in baseball behind him now.
• Roki’s on another heater (2.25 ERA/1.00 WHIP/20% K-BB in 24 IP) and gets a great matchup to stay hot. Of course, his last bad outing was a 3 IP/6 ER Dud against SDP, one of the worst offenses in the league, so there are never any guarantees with him.
• Despite getting SDP today, I did drop Blanco down to 1-x just because we really haven’t seen a ton in his 3 starts off the IL.

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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 »

It’s Week 19 of the fantasy baseball season. It’s a sprint now. In redraft leagues, whether it’s a head-to-head or season long format, you want pitchers who are going to pitch, and pitch deep into games. 

At the same time, plenty of teams across the majors are winding down their seasons. If a team sold their stars and spare parts, they probably won’t be letting their young arms go deep into starts anymore. And if a team bought, especially if they bought a rental, expect that player to be used. 

In this article, I’m going to look at starting pitchers on teams that are in competitive playoff races that I think are either worth trading for or worth adding, focusing on some recently moved arms and other players who could potentially be available in your league.  Read the rest of this entry »