This is Championship Weekend for those of you who don’t play out the final week so best of luck over these final 3 games! For those of you playing through 162, we’ve got 8-9 games left for everyone and we’re turning over every rock to scrounge every point we can in the standings.
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For baseball fans visiting FanGraphs who do not play fantasy baseball, leaderboards will do. Scroll to the bottom right corner of the main page and all baseball fans can see that, of course, Aaron Judge and Juan Soto are the current leaders in wOBA and wRC+. They can see that Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal have the lowest ERAs in the game and that Emmanuel Clase and Kirby Yates have the lowest reliever ERA in the game. But we fantasy baseball players need something more. We need to see who has been valuable from a specific set of league parameters. Bring in year-to-date auction values with the FanGraphs auction calculator! Read the rest of this entry »
I find Thursday’s board very interesting. Some spots to take calculated gambles, some potential landmines, some YOLO throws, and of course, some aces!
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Angels superstar Mike Trout said his twice surgically repaired left knee is feeling better and he’s open to potentially moving to a corner outfield spot or serving as designated hitter more often to try to stay healthy.
Pardon me for board-only tonight, but I have a splitting headache despite the Tigers fantastic win in KC… maybe I looked at Bobby Miller’s results too hard. Either way, I’m headed to bed early. I’ll answer comments if you want to know about any specifically and I have my chat at 1 pm CT on Wednesday so feel free to bring any roster questions you have as well as any 2025 questions. We’ll be doing draft prep before we know it!
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Fascinating board this week with several studs going as well as some legitimately solid streamers.
I’m just not 100% sure on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s volume which is the only reason he’s not Auto Start.
Reid Detmers is a guardrail-to-guardrail guy: in the minors when he’s off, but basically must start once he’s back on. He had 3 brilliant starts in the minors before returning and dropping 2 more gems against playoff teams (LAD, MIN). The HOU start is a bit scary just because of his volatility but I love Detmers down the stretch (at TEX in the final wk).
I was worried about Luis Gil and cut him when he hit the IL (for Detmers, though, so I’m not losing out — Monday Night Paul here — I have indeed lost out, quite a bit in fact. Thanks, Reid.) thinking he could be limited down the stretch and perhaps shelved as a starter until October entirely (meaning 1-3 IP type stints once back). But maybe the 2 weeks off was just what he needed as he’s come back with a pair of gems, allowing just 1 ER with 12 Ks in 11 IP. Now he gets a brilliant trio of starts to close out the year with the at SEA, at OAK 2-step this week and then PIT comes to visit in the final series of the season, though a Win won’t be easy if the Pirates stick to schedule and run Paul Skenes.
Matthew Boyd couldn’t take advantage of his CHW start, but I’m more than happy to run him after seeing the 2.18 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, and 22% K-BB in 6 starts this year. He’s keeping the ball in the yard, too, with just a 0.8 HR9.
Frankie Montas is back! I barely considered him in even the deepest of leagues during his Cincy run, but he’s found his groove again with Milwaukee: 3.40 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 17% K-BB in 45 IP across 8 starts including 6+ IP in each of the last 5. It’s a tough draw, but Wins and Ks chasers should be considering him.
Bobby Miller is back on the radar with at MIA/COL on the docket despite how scary he has been all year. The Angels tattooed him 2 starts ago so good matchups aren’t guaranteeing anything, but it’s hard to find a better pair of matchups and supporting cast combo than this setup.
Reese Olson gets thrown right back into the fire with trips to KCR and BAL after just 5 rehab innings in 2 starts. They were shutout innings with just 2 hits, 2 walks, and 6 Ks, plus let’s not forget how good he was prior to the IL stint (3.23 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 15% K-BB in 103 IP). At the very least, I like stashing him for the CHW start in the final weekend if you prefer to let him tune-up this week.
If you have questions about anyone, let me know in the comments!
