MASH Report (8/18/14)

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August 18, 2014

The MASH Report is little low on content today and the same will be true for Thursday. I will release a full PAIN and HURT reports on Friday when I get some extra time (kids are finally back in school).

• Gerrit Cole is expected to come off the DL on Wednesday.

• Yonder Alonso is done for the season, he is droppable in all redraft leagues.

• So are the Brewers Jim Henderson (link) and Tyler Thornburg.

• Joey Votto was placed on the 60-day DL, so the earliest he can possibly return to play is September 4th.

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• It looks like David Wright (link) and Matt Holliday (link) will grind through the rest of the season with some nagging injuries.

• In deep keeper news, the Royals Kyle Zimmer is back and throwing hard.

Fastball Velocity Watch for Pitchers Returning From the DL

• Mike Morin’s aveage fastball velocity looks fine.

• Ricky Nolasco’s velocity was up about 1 mph over his 3-year-average.

• Henderson Alvarez’s is a little on the low side.

Players on the DL

(*) 15 Day Disabled List
(**) 60 Day Disabled List
(***) 7 Day Concussion List
(****) Free Agent
Red colored entries are updates since last report.

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Jeff, one of the authors of the fantasy baseball guide,The Process, writes for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, Rotowire, Baseball America, and BaseballHQ. He has been nominated for two SABR Analytics Research Award for Contemporary Analysis and won it in 2013 in tandem with Bill Petti. He has won four FSWA Awards including on for his Mining the News series. He's won Tout Wars three times, LABR twice, and got his first NFBC Main Event win in 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jeffwzimmerman.

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Cason Jolette
11 years ago

Do you think Bailey will return this season?

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Jeff ZimmermanFanGraphs Staff
11 years ago
Reply to  Cason Jolette

There is probably a chance. I dug a little further and found this:

An MRI exam on Wednesday revealed the injury. Bailey did not travel to Denver with the club and remains in Cincinnati.

“It certainly means there will be a week of no throwing and then we’ll reassess,” Price said. “He’ll start to play catch. How quickly he bounces back will directly correlate with how quickly we get him back.”

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140814&content_id=89646672&notebook_id=89650160&vkey=notebook_cin&c_id=cin

Sounds like more information is coming on Wednesday.

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mymaus
11 years ago

Your column has been a great help all year and thanks in part to you I’ve pretty much sown up a first round bye in my H2H OBP league playoffs. The 2nd and 3rd rounds are the weeks of 9/8 and 9/15. Which of these players (Molina, Votto, Zimmerman or Wacha) should I stash on the DL based on their projected performance vs the player they are replacing (listed below) during only those 2 weeks. I’ve also listed total games (in parens) and their schedules during the period in question:

Y. Molina – (13) 4@CIN, 3vCOL, 3vMIL, 3vCIN
VS
R. Martin – (13) 4@PHI, 3vCHC, 3vBOS, 3vMIL

Votto – (13) 4vSTL, 3@MIL, 3@CHC, 3@STL
OR
R. Zimmerman – (14) 3vATL, 4@NYM, 3@ATL, 4@MIA
VS
Bruce – (13) 4vSTL, 3@MIL, 3@CHC, 3@STL
OR
Carter – (13) 3@SEA, 3@LAA, 4vCLE, 3vSEA

Wacha – (13) 4@CIN, 3vCOL, 3vMIL, 3vCIN
VS
Colon – (13) 3vCOL, 4vWAS, 3vMIA, 3 @ATL

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Jeff ZimmermanFanGraphs Staff
11 years ago
Reply to  mymaus

You need the player to play and with it near the end of the season and Reds are about out of it (at least by 4th), Votto is out.

I think Zim will get hurt again/play hurt/never come back, so I would take Wacha or Molina.

I like Colon and think he will keep throwing, so at the end, I would stash Molina nd hope he out performs Martin

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Ruki Motomiya
11 years ago

The biggest surprise of this article is…people still had Yonder Alonso on their roster in redraft league?

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Derek Norris
11 years ago
Reply to  Ruki Motomiya

I fall for Alonso every year, although I’d long since dumped in this year. The injury prevents me from being tempted to draft him again, since he actually had been hot since returning from the DL. In admittedly a tiny sample, in 44 second half PAs he went .421/.477/.737 with 4 doubles a triple and 2 homers.

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Moop
11 years ago

Thoughts on Kipnis?

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Jeff ZimmermanFanGraphs Staff
11 years ago
Reply to  Moop

I would not be surprised if his abdomen (he missed most of May because of it) is still effecting his power. His ISO was .160 before it and .084 after it.

The rest of his stats are basically inline with previous seasons.

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Wobatus
11 years ago

Late with this one but what about Greinke? They say he’s pitched through elbow soreness last 3 weeks or so. Velocity was up last game and looks fine but his control was a bit off.

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