The remake is never as good as the original

Now that Beltré is retired. Elvis Andrus has moved onto annoying Rougned Odor. 😂 pic.twitter.com/nEBMSK2Biy

— Cut4 (@Cut4) September 2, 2019

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No major rookie call ups, but some interesting names for the last month of the season.

The projection guidelines:

• The ownership rates are from CBS since they have some quickdraw waiver wire leagues where players can be picked up at any time.
• The FAAB estimates are based on the 2018 15-team mixed NFBC leagues which used a $1000 FAAB budget. Owners are going to need to convert these values to their own league.
• The ownership values were taken from Saturday and lots can happen in between when they publish and FAAB bids run.
• Only players owned in 50% or fewer of CBS leagues are examined.

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8/30/19

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Paul and Nick review PitcherList’s excellent rest of season schedule list for starting pitchers identifying teams with good/bad schedules before highlighting some specific pitchers who could rise or fall based on their remaining schedule.

Check out the list here!

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Angels

• Since Andrelton Simmons has returned from the IL, Matt Thaiss has moved to the bench.
• Brian Goodwin’s fantasy value is dead since he’s barely starting.

Astros

• The lineup remains steady with the only exception being Abraham Toro (.211/.286/.211) playing third and Alex Bregman sliding over to short with Carlos Correa out.

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We’ve spent a lot of virtual column inches, podcast minutes, and tweets discussing the new reality of offense in baseball. Call it the rabbit ball, super happy fun ball, or bouncy ball, whatever you want, but we know that the current structure of the league’s baseballs has fueled an explosion. It’s not the ball alone, players are more in tune with their swings and more of them are understanding the importance of putting the ball in the air to maximize power output.

A quick scan of your own team likely gives you an idea of how different this environment is as many player lines look complete already and we still have a month left. But where exactly are we in relation to previous seasons? Let’s take a look:

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Today, I am going through some fantasy-relevant information which could change several player projections.

• Dan Hayes of The Athletic ($$) stated the following on Martín Pérez.

The Twins believe the keys to Pérez’s great early performance this season were working with increased velocity and filling up the strike zone. For the past few weeks, Twins pitching coaches have encouraged Pérez not to worry about conserving energy in order to pitch deep into games.

Air it out. Let them worry about the late innings. And on the days when the velo isn’t there, locate and attack.

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8/28/19

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NEWS

• Jose Ramirez hamate bone (3:40)

2019 SURPRISING BREAKOUTS IN 2020

• Carlos Santana (7:15)
• Yordan Alvarez (14:42)
• Ketel Marte (21:25)

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What in the Melville?

You might not remember Tim Melville’s first 14.7 innings as a major leaguer, thrown in 2016-17 split between Cincinnati, Minnesota, and San Diego. I wouldn’t blame you for that as he had an 11.05 ERA, 2.59 WHIP, and 9.90 FIP with a hot 0% K-BB ratio. You might’ve even missed his 12 innings this year, an emergency start against Arizona during which he allowed just one run on two hits and two walks and then five shutout innings in Coors against the Braves thrown yesterday afternoon.

It’s hard to put much credence in any of the samples, but it’s clear that he’s markedly different than he was in 2016-17. First, he’s throwing 4 mph slower than he did in 2017, down to 89.7 mph, but he’s also not really throwing a fastball. In these 12 innings, he’s thrown his heater just 32% of the time. Instead, he’s decided to become a slider-first pitcher, throwing it 55% of the time so far.

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The heck with the intro, I’ll go straight to the players being dropped in six to nine NFBC Main Event (15-team, 23-man rosters) leagues.

Injured

• Jesse Winker (7): Back injury has him on the IL.
• Domingo Santana (7): On IL with an inflamed elbow.
• Scott Oberg (6): Out for the season.
• Mitch Haniger (6): Another setback means he’ll likely not play in 2019.
• Nomar Mazara (6): He can’t help a fantasy teams from the IL

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