Ottoneu Hot Right Now: June 30, 2026

Hot Right Now (HRN) is a weekly Ottoneu feature focused on popular players currently being auctioned or players who you should think about auctioning in your Ottoneu leagues. Even if you don’t play Ottoneu, we’ll be highlighting players you should be looking at in deeper and keeper formats. In this feature, we will break down players into two sections:

1. Current Auctions: A closer look at players being auctioned at a high rate.
2. Hot Performers: Players with a high P/G or P/IP over the last 14 days who are also rostered in 80% of leagues or less.

The RotoGraphs Ottoneu team plans to run this feature weekly, updating fantasy managers on the biggest movers in Ottoneu leagues with an analysis of how these players could or could not help your roster.

Current Auctions

Jake Bennett — 80 current auctions — 43.4% roster%

With the Red Sox dealing with a bunch of injuries to their starting rotation, Jake Bennett has gotten an opportunity to stake a claim on the big league roster. After a brief call up in May, he’s been solid after being recalled in mid-June; over his last four starts this month, he’s allowed seven runs in 22.2 innings with a fantastic 7.0 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

As a prospect, he was seen as a surefire backend starter with solid command and a nasty changeup. His four-seam fastball has taken a big step forward this year — he’s running a nearly 30% whiff rate with his heater so far. His breaking balls are more of a work-in-progress, though the quality of his fastball and changeup are enough that he’s thrived without needing to use his curveball or sweeper very often.

The waiver options for solid starting pitching are increasingly sparse at this point in the season. I’ll admit, I started three of those current auctions for Bennett in three of my leagues and lost out on an auction for him in another.

Hot Performers
Players with a high P/G or P/IP over the last 14 days rostered in 80% of leagues or less.

Trevor Larnach — 10.1 FGPts/G (last 14 days) — 78.1% roster%

Over the last two weeks, Trevor Larnach has collected 18 hits, five doubles, and two home runs, good for a .462/.488/.744 slash line and a 244 wRC+. This is a bit of a resurgence for him after he slumped through most of May and early June.

This hot streak has raised his season line to a 131 wRC+, though there are some indications that he’s out over his skis a bit. First of all, his hard hit rate is sitting at a career-low 32.6%, a 13-point drop from what he posted last year. His BABIP is all the way up at .343 — a career-high — and he’s outperforming his xwOBA by nearly 30 points.

It’s not all bad news, however. He’s managed to cut his strikeout rate down to a career-low 17.7% by improving his out-of-zone contact rate pretty significantly. The drop in punchouts is definitely a good thing, but putting bad pitches in play more often isn’t necessarily how you want to improve your contact rate. Between the loss of contact quality and the mixed changes to his plate approach, I’m not sure there’s any significant difference to Larnach’s profile. Sure, he’s on a hot streak right now, but his results could swing the other way as soon as his BABIP regresses towards league average.

Caleb Durbin — 8.6 FGPts/G (last 14 days) — 67.4% roster%

Caleb Durbin got off to a terrible start with the Red Sox after being acquired from the Brewers during the offseason. Through May 24, he was running a .163/.241/.238 slash line, “good” for a 32 wRC+. Since then, he’s caught fire, running a .330/.350/.598 slash line (a 153 wRC+) with five home runs in 27 games.

The biggest change for him has been a return to the skills that had helped him produce a solid rookie season with Milwaukee last year: namely a focus on pulling the ball and getting the ball in the air to the left side.

He’s still striking out a bit more often than last year so everything isn’t back in order, but the changes to his batted ball approach bode well for his ability to produce positive value as the season goes on. If you cut Durbin after his ugly start to the season like I did in two of my leagues, it might be worthwhile to reassess him in the middle of this hot streak.

Foster Griffin — 6.7 FGPts/IP (last 14 days) — 78.1% roster%

I wrote about Foster Griffin in this column back in mid May. Here’s what I wrote a month and a half ago:

“[Griffin] has been one of the best pitchers on Washington’s beleaguered pitching staff, compiling a 2.12 ERA and a 4.08 FIP across his first eight starts this year. A crafty lefty with a deep repertoire, Griffin has excelled by keeping batters off balance with seven different pitches. … As you might expect from the large gap between his ERA and FIP, the rest of his ERA estimators aren’t as enamoured with his run prevention so far. His xERA, SIERA, and xFIP are currently 4.09, 3.94, and 3.85, respectively. His BABIP is way down at .216 as he’s clearly benefitted from a bunch of good luck on all the contact he allows. The deep arsenal will allow him to work through a lineup a few times — he’s pitched into the sixth inning or later in six of his eight starts — but he’s walking a very fine line right now. I expect some regression will come sooner or later.”

That regression came almost immediately. Griffin allowed nine runs in his next start after that article was published and wound up allowing 17 total runs across his final four starts in May. He’s managed to turn things back around in June, however. He’s allowed just five total runs this month and has struck out 33 in 31.1 innings against just four walks.

That hiccup in late May shows what his floor could look like if his batted ball luck turns again, but his strikeout-to-walk ratio has been solid throughout the season. He’s probably worth reevaluating if you walked away from him in May.