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: Here are the winning FAAB bids from the two 15-team Tout Wars leagues
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: projections for JJ Bleday?
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: I think he’s a full-season 20-30 HR, 5 SB, .225 AVG guy
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: Are we still believers in Vinny P? All the peripherals say hold but it’s been rough. Prefer him to Pratto? darick hall?
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It’s so tough to see who has jumped in value with a few games played. I’m guessing Sunday news and performance will matter more than ever.
In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting 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. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2022 version of Bullpen Report includes five different sections, as well as the closer chart, which can be found at the bottom of the page.
We will always include a link to the full Closer Depth Chart at the bottom of the Bullpen Report each day. It’s also accessible from the RosterResource drop-down menu and from any RosterResource page. Please let us know what you think.
The “RosterResource” link will take you to the corresponding team’s RosterResource depth chart, which will give you a better picture of the full bullpen and results of the previous six days (pitch count, save, hold, win, loss, blown save).
Click HERE to view the full Closer Depth Chart.
Orioles
• Many of the starters will be on innings limits including Tyler Wells, Dean Kremer, and Kyle Bradish.
Hall isn’t the only starting pitcher who will be on an innings leash in the second half. The Orioles want to do the same thing with Tyler Wells and also will be watching Dean Kremer and Kyle Bradish. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hall is piggybacked with one of those guys once he is promoted.
This philosophy may change if the Orioles get closer to the wild-card race, but Elias has said repeatedly that 2022 is designed to put his inexperienced starters in a position to not have any major limitations next year. And that means nursing them along through the full season this year with a manageable workload.
Rangers
• Elier Hernandez has reworked his stance prior to his promotion.
This season, however, has been a revelation. Hernández says that — among other adjustments — he altered his stance, changing the position of his right foot. The results? A .910 OPS with just 45 strikeouts and 20 walks in 62 games.
The main difference from his 2021 and 2022 AAA stats is his strikeout rate dropping from 30% K% to 20% K%.
Tigers
• While in AAA Akil Baddoo has been working on his swing.
And it took some time for the swing to click. Baddoo worked on a number of small adjustments in Toledo. He’s holding his hands further back in his setup. He ditched a leg kick he implemented over the offseason. The Tigers wanted Baddoo to get back to his contact-oriented ways, but they also wanted him to smooth out what can sometimes be a choppy swing, too.
Twins
• The linked article goes over the various scenarios that might happen when Miguel Sanó comes off the IL. Here is one:
We’re about to see this situation come to a head in the next few days, because the 20-day window for Sanó’s minor-league rehab assignment is almost closed. Once his rehab assignment ends, the Twins will have to clear room for him on the active roster or say goodbye, via trade, waivers or outright release. I believe there’s a decent chance we’ve seen the last of Sanó in a Twins uniform.
• When Kenta Maeda returns from the IL, he will head to the bullpen.
Maeda’s comeback from elbow surgery has advanced to throwing fastballs off a mound and he recently clocked in at 85 mph, so everything is going according to plan thus far. It sounds like he’s aiming for a September return, with a relief role the most likely goal considering how much more time it would take him to build back up to a starter’s workload.
Brewers
Christian Yelich will continue to have back problems.
On his back:
“Yeah, I was doing a better job of staying on the field. Obviously, I’ve had to manage this thing over the years. It’s frustrating when it pops up. We kept it in a pretty good place, stayed on it. I was just kind of getting loose, and it decided that that was enough. It just kind of tightened up, and I could feel it grab and go, and once that happens, it’s a wrap. It’s a different spot than it usually is, though, which is good. So I don’t think this one will be a long time by any means, which is good news. Not like last year.”
Padres
• MacKenzie Gore’s workload will be limited and he’ll eventually move to the bullpen.
Already this season, the Padres have managed to limit Gore’s workload to the point where he’s pitched only 68 1/3 big league innings (in addition to five in the Minors). That should line him up to be very available in the second half.
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As such, Gore will continue as a starter after the break. But at some point, his workload will be limited. If the Padres want to make sure he’s available for the stretch run, his best path might be a relief role. Some in the organization wonder whether Gore might even become something of a late-season relief ace, with his stuff playing up in short bursts.
Phillies
• Jean Segura is hoping to come off the IL earlier than expected but not at 100%.
Segura broke his right index finger on May 31 and had surgery on June 3. The Phillies said then that he would miss 10-12 weeks. The 10-week mark is August 12, which means he is nearly five weeks into his recovery. But Segura said Wednesday that he plans to beat his original timeline and rejoin the Phils’ lineup earlier than expected.
“I’m not letting this thing go 10 to 12 weeks,” he said. “I don’t think that’s going to happen. As soon as I feel I can grip the bat and take a couple of swings …”
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So he really thinks he could be back before 10 weeks?
“The way we look right now, probably,” Segura said. “I still have a couple of tests — gripping the ball, throwing, hitting. So if everything goes well in the next couple of weeks, we might. … I’ve been doing some aggressive therapy. Getting it moving. The more I move it, the quicker it will heal, and I’ll get mobility. When mobility is 70 to 80 percent, I think that’s enough for me to play.”
We’re back!
Took a little time and then the All-Star break, but it’s good to get back to the grind. There is still so much time left in the season. About 3 weeks ago, I was lamenting to Justin about a dip in our Main Event standings. I had fallen to 14th after sitting in the 4th-7th range for a bit and thought I was making a move. He – sitting in 1st at the time – gave me the pep talk about how much the standings move day-to-day and that I could be back up just as quickly as I fell with a couple good days. I entered the break in 8th, 2 points ahead of Justin in 9th.
I don’t bring this up to roast Justin in any way, but to underscore just how much many league’s standings are still shifting day-to-day. Every league is different and sometimes there just aren’t enough gettable points in the roto standings. But oftentimes, we let go of 8th-12th place teams that are still very much in contention with some quality play and diligent management. I like to go through the standings and count the realistic points I could acquire if my team plays well.
That exercise also helps me assess categories I might consider attacking via FAAB (or trades if your league allows – the Main Event does not). There are definitely some teams that are buried at this juncture often due to a rash of star player injuries, but don’t count yourself out just because you might be in the bottom half of the standings right now. With 70-some games to go, there is still so much to be decided!
A few thoughts on the pitchers from Thursday’s games:
| # | Name | Team | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | TBF | ERA | WHIP | W | vFA (pi) | vSI (pi) | SwStr% |
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| 1 | Tarik Skubal | DET | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 22 | 0.00 | 0.67 | 1 | 95.5 | 95.7 | 13% |
| 2 | Jon Gray | TEX | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1 | 96.7 | 13% | |
| 3 | Mitch White | LAD | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 0.00 | 0.60 | 0 | 94 | 94.1 | 4% |
| 4 | Frankie Montas | OAK | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 96.8 | 96.7 | 13% |
| 5 | Cristian Javier | HOU | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 1.80 | 1.20 | 0 | 93.7 | 9% | |
| 6 | Jordan Montgomery | NYY | 6.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 26 | 2.84 | 1.26 | 0 | 93 | 93.3 | 19% |
| 7 | Zach Logue | OAK | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 0 | 90.2 | 7% | |
| 8 | Luis Garcia | HOU | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 3.60 | 1.00 | 1 | 93.8 | 11% | |
| 9 | Garrett Hill | DET | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 5.40 | 1.40 | 0 | 91.9 | 91.3 | 4% |
| 10 | Carlos Rodón | SFG | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 9.00 | 1.60 | 0 | 94.9 | 18% | |
| 11 | Pablo López | MIA | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 9.00 | 1.60 | 0 | 92.9 | 93.2 | 16% |
| 12 | Domingo Germán | NYY | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 15.00 | 2.33 | 0 | 93.4 | 93.6 | 9% |
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