Roto Riteup: April 9, 2019
I am the King of the woooooooooooorld!!!
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— Cut4 (@Cut4) April 7, 2019
On the Agenda:
1. Hit(less) King
2. Various News and Notes
3. Streaming Pitching Options
Hit(less) King
Chris Davis set the all-time consecutive hit streak by going 0-for-5 against Marco Estrada and the A’s Davis passed Eugenio Velez’s previous record of 46 straight at bats without a hit and now stands at 49 consecutive outs. Davis hit the ball hard a number of times, but they all found gloves. This isn’t fantasy relevant, but more just a reminder that being a part of history is not always a good thing.
Various News and Notes
Hyun-Jin Ryu left Monday’s game after injuring his groin. Ryu will be placed on the Injured List after being diagnosed with a groin strain according to manager Dave Roberts. Ryu had been fantastic this season, but his loss means that Ross Stripling and Julio Urias are safely in the rotation for the time being.
Clay Buchholz is expected to be activated from the 10-Day IL in order to make his 2019 debut for the Toronto Blue Jays. Buchholz had his 2018 season cut short, but he was great until injuring his flexor tendon, throwing 98.1 innings with a 2.01 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP. He will slide into the Jays rotation this weekend.
According to manager Bud Black, David Dahl may avoid the IL after suffering a core injury on Sunday. The injury appears to have looked worse than it actually is and the oft-injured outfielder will likely not miss much time.
According to Jake Kaplan of The Athletic, Brad Peacock will be moved into the bullpen for the next two weeks. The Astros are not in need of a fifth starter for the time being, so Peacock will work out of the pen until he is needed again on April 23rd.
Luis Severino suffered a setback in his rehab from a shoulder injury. Severino was had a long toss session and apparently something didn’t feel right and he will now undergo an additional MRI in order to see if there is any further damage to his injured rotator cuff. This sounds bad, but fantasy owners should wait for more news until they react.
Luis Urias was recalled from AAA. Urias will take the spot of Franchy Cordero who was placed on the 10-Day IL. Urias will likely split time with Ian Kinsler at second base for the time being. Urias is a former top prospect for the Padres that has been leapfrogged in the organization by Fernando Tatis Jr., but if he can hit while up, there is no reason to think he can’t leapfrog Kinsler.
Streaming Pitching Options (Less than 50% owned)
Pitcher for Today: None
High Risk Option: Derek Holland vs SD
Holland’s start to the season hasn’t been great and the Padres are hitting lefties, but Holland has upside and he is at home.
Pitcher for Tomorrow: Frankie Montas @ BAL
Montas has been impressive in his first few starts of the season and faces a bad Orioles team led by hitless Chris Davis.
High Risk Option: Nick Margevicius @ SF
Hard to believe he can keep up what he has done thus far, but he gets to face the Giants in San Francisco, so he is worth the gamble.
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No news on Taillon?
He is OK, did regular interviews post game.
Cool, thanks.
I suspect pulling him had as much to do with the game situation as anything. He just had a 37 pitch inning and was at 58 pitches through 2 IP, was down 6-0 and had just taken a glancing blow to the head. Plus he looks like your rotation anchor for the next 5+ years. Better to be cautious and get him out of there and run a few tests (which were all negative apparently)
As both a Taillon and a Clevinger owner, all I can say is AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH
Ugh. We’ve all been there – that sucks. I had Freeman and Trout a couple years ago when they were both on the DL for 6 weeks at the same time with busted thumbs.
Yeah, I mean, everybody’s who plays this game has these stretches. Usually they aren’t in the second week of the year but hey, what can you do? Comment “AAAARRRRGGGHHHH” on an internet forum and scour the waiver wire I guess.
I like how spoiled we have become with rookies that a 20 year old short stop can jump directly from AA and have a .289 ISO and 126 wRC+ over his first 11 games and it barely registers. This current youth movement is great for baseball and hopefully curtails service time manipulation.
Re Tatis: I feel like the community has ever-so-slightly started drifting away from traditional redrafts and more toward the poles – either strictly DFS players or Dynasty / Keeper owners. The dissonance of Tatis’ perceived value may be the result of format differences.
When are we going to start talking about the Dansby Swanaissance around here?
Maybe when we get to a meaningful number of PA?
Sure. However, his Statcast data is showing encouraging signs of improvement, unlike Yandy Diaz, another hot-start darling. Considering he is still widely available, it’s worth looking at (although his ownership has surged the last few days).
He hit ok, last year as well in the second half.
Thoughts on Dansby? Or Marcus Semien’s OBP?
My thoughts on Dansby are that I’m encouraged to see his O-Swing% (or Chase% on Baseball Savant) way down, and his Barrels% (5 already this year, 15 all last year) and Exit Velocity way up.
He has name recognition and his ownership in Yahoo! is already over 50% after being below 20% a few days ago; if you have the space and think .250-.270 and 20/15 ROS would help you, I’d grab him now.
They are minimizing the seriousness of Dahl’s injury. An IL stint will indeed happen . . .
Yep, already happened. As my most owned player, sigh.
In a league that allows trades (redraft) how lightly are we moving on from Sale? Better to try and regain some value, or are we concerned enough that we’d try to get something like Tanaka back for him?
I took Sale ahead of deGrom (sigh). Anyway, I’m holding to see where he is come May because he did the exact same thing last year – started out throwing 90-92 and beefed it up come May. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t all sorts of super-concerned about it at this point. And, of course, unlike this year his 1st few starts last year were actually very good with 3 ER total and 31 Ks in his 1st 4 starts.
He did hit as high as 94.7 mph in the start today with 2 of his last 3 fastballs at 93.4 and 94.6, but was all over the place in terms of velo with 4-seamers all the way from 89 to 94.7. I watched a bit of it and he looked a lot like he was going full crafty-lefty out there. Threw a TON of off-speed and breaking stuff.
How do you feel about starting Mahle vs MIA tomorrow? Too high-risk since they’re playing in CIN?