Fantasy Baseball Weekend Streamers: Dormant Orioles offense in great spot this weekend vs. Angels
This is a difficult weekend to stream hitters, as there are more teams with tough hitting matchups than favorable ones. The one piece of good news is that there is an unusual amount of left-handed starters on the docket this weekend, which opens the door to grabbing some players who excel against southpaws. Things look much brighter on the pitching side, as there are many starters who could help put fantasy baseball teams over the top in head-to-head leagues.
Matchups to Target
Marlins @ Nationals: Although Marlins hitters may have a tough time against MacKenzie Gore on Sunday, they will face starters in Mitchell Parker and Trevor Williams on Friday and Saturday with ERAs of 4.44 and 5.91, respectively. And throughout the series, Miami has the potential to do damage late in games against a bullpen with a 5.77 ERA. Otto Lopez (9%) and Agustín Ramírez (34%) should hit third and fourth, respectively, which makes both players appealing in all formats. Eric Wagaman (3%) is someone to consider in deeper leagues, as is Connor Norby (11%).
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Orioles vs. Angels: Baltimore has struggled offensively at times this year but could have a great weekend against an uninspiring trio of starters and a bullpen with a 5.54 ERA. With two Los Angeles starters throwing from the left side, Ramon Laureano (1%) is a terrific player to add. Managers in deep leagues may want to add Ramón Urías (1%), who hits fifth in the lineup against southpaws.
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Royals vs. Athletics: The Royals should score a few runs against each of three mediocre starters this weekend before feasting on a bullpen that ranks last in baseball with a 6.04 ERA. The Athletics are starting two lefties, which makes right-handed leadoff man Jonathan India (38%) an excellent fit.
Brewers vs. Cardinals: The Brewers should enjoy spending the weekend at their hitter-friendly home park, and they have plenty of offensive potential against three right-handed starters who would be best described as serviceable. The bottom half of the Brewers lineup is widely available, including Rhys Hoskins (43%), Sal Frelick (25%) and Caleb Durbin (4%).
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Braves vs. Rockies: Atlanta's disappointing offense could enjoy three days of crooked numbers when they face a beleaguered Rockies staff that has a 5.61 ERA. Alex Verdugo (1%) should start the initial two games of the series. Those who have benched Michael Harris II in mixed leagues should ensure that he returns to the active lineup.
Matchups to Avoid
Red Sox vs. Yankees: New York will start lefties in all three games this weekend, and two of their starters (Carlos Rodón, Max Fried) are having excellent seasons. Lefty leadoff man Jarren Duran has struggled against same-sided hurlers this season. And there are a pair of rookies who bat from the left side, Roman Anthony and Marcelo Mayer.
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Blue Jays @ Phillies: Toronto will face three starters with an ERA of 3.10 or lower, and two of the three throw from the left side. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., George Springer and Alejandro Kirk are the three Blue Jays who can remain in most lineups.
Guardians @ Mariners: The Guardians will face effective right-handed starters on Friday and Saturday, and all of this weekend's games are at Seattle's pitcher-friendly venue. José Ramírez and Steven Kwan are the only Cleveland hitters who should remain in lineups.
Rays @ Mets: New York will feature three solid starters this weekend, which should be good enough to get the game to a bullpen that ranks second in baseball with a 2.86 ERA. Junior Caminero should remain active, and the right-handed nature of all three Mets starters makes Brandon Lowe, Jonathan Aranda and Josh Lowe worth consideration in 12-team leagues. Although these players may remain in lineups, they are unlikely to have a major impact.
Seeking Saves
Calvin Faucher, Miami Marlins, 9%
I'm less excited about Faucher than the other pitchers whom I have recommended in this space during recent weeks, but I must admit that he has a good chance of earning a save this weekend. The Nats are starting subpar hurlers on Friday and Saturday, and Miami's mediocre offense could be just good enough to build a narrow lead. Faucher has emerged as the Marlins' closer, having picked up four saves since May 26.
Seeking Steals
Willi Castro, Minnesota Twins, 47%
The Twins will spend the weekend facing an Astros club that has allowed the second most steals of any team. Castro hasn't been especially aggressive on the basepaths this season, but he has posted lofty steals totals in the past. And with four eligible positions, the heavily-used utilityman is easy to fit into a lineup. In deeper leagues, Harrison Bader (3%) is another good candidate to swipe a base.
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- New York Times
How the Nationals' MacKenzie Gore — No. 1 in your program — became No. 1 in strikeouts, too
Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of baseball. The No. 1 strikeout pitcher in Major League Baseball is the Washington Nationals' MacKenzie Gore, a tall, slender left-hander who is shaped roughly like the number 1. He wears No. 1 on his back, too, but not as a status symbol or ego boost. Actually, it's the opposite. Advertisement 'I was the smallest player my freshman year in high school,' said Gore, who is now 6 feet 2 and 193 pounds. 'I was maybe 5-9, 150 pounds, and then we won a state championship, so it was like, 'Well, we can't change the number now.' And then we won another one, so we're just going to keep it. That's kind of how it happened, and here we are.' Gore led the Whiteville (N.C.) Wolfpack to three state championships, and the San Diego Padres took him with the third draft pick in 2017. When they brought Gore to the majors five years later, they figured he'd still want the number. It stuck. Few pitchers have ever worn No. 1 — Yuki Matsui, Luis Patiño, Shun Yamaguchi, Matt Young — and none for as long as Gore. Now he is wearing it with distinction, with a 2.88 ERA to go with a hard-luck 3-5 record. Now in his fourth season, Gore is seeing his results match his exceptional stuff. 'He's starting to understand what he can do with it now — not shying away from contact, not shying away from throwing strikes,' Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. 'He's being a little bit more efficient.' That's true, to a point. Gore, who has reached seven innings just once in his 14 starts this season, is not afraid to call himself a strikeout pitcher. 'Yeah, I think I've got good stuff,' he said this week at Citi Field. 'Once you get second, third time through (the order), if you've seen something, I can throw something different. So yeah, I like striking people out, but I think that I have good stuff and I know if I do well, especially, I'm capable of striking a lot of people out.' Gore finished last season with a 1.55 ERA in his final seven starts, with more strikeouts than innings pitched. He fanned nine in six shutout innings of his last start, against Philadelphia, then whiffed 13 Phillies in six more shutout innings this Opening Day. Advertisement In between, Gore said, he resolved to feature his slider, instead of his cutter, as his primary off-speed pitch against left-handers. Gore said he's always had the slider, but pitching coach Jim Hickey said he noticed more sweeping action on it late last season. 'When he threw it, it was like, 'S—, I mean, that's a thing, you know?' Hickey said. 'So he was always capable of doing it, but it was just more of a conventional slider where he was maybe a little bit more behind it, a smaller break. But now, boom, he went off the side of it by design and got a lot more horizontal movement.' Gore arrived from San Diego at the 2022 trading deadline as part of Washington's overwhelming haul for Juan Soto. He had thrived early on with the Padres (4-1, 1.50 in his first nine starts), but didn't really know why, and didn't speak up when his elbow started hurting. He got lucky. 'The strength was gone,' Gore said. 'The day it happened I was like, 'This could be bad.' But we got great news.' Elbow inflammation ended his season, and Gore rehabbed the injury with his new team. But a strange thing happened in his first two seasons with the Nationals: lefties owned him, batting .297. The sweeping slider has fixed that, giving Gore a complementary option for his low-slot, riding fastball. 'He can start a ball on you, and that would normally have been a shutdown,' said the Mets' Brandon Nimmo, meaning a pitch that the lefty hitter would automatically take. 'Where now, he can get it back out over the plate and kind of create like a front-hip (action). So it just allows a few more weapons.' Weaponry has never been a problem for Gore. Ten years before Gore's days at Whiteville, another North Carolina high school lefty, Madison Bumgarner, needed only fastballs to dominate. Gore looked up to Bumgarner but worked with a deeper arsenal. He would throw 64 pitches in bullpen sessions: fastballs, sliders, curveballs and changeups, 16 apiece, eight from the windup and eight from the stretch. And he did it — from the windup, anyway — with a leg kick that flamingoes must envy. .@Padres top pick @Mgore181 has a leg kick that would make @DTrainMLB — Cut4 (@Cut4) June 13, 2017 'I was told to turn and show your hip pocket to the plate, and it became a big leg kick for some reason,' Gore said. 'I was skinny and flexible.' Gore has since lowered his glove, which used to make an A-frame above his head, but he still gets his leg fairly high. Hickey called Gore the best athlete on the Nationals, a 'dynamic mover' who needs that rhythmic action to control all his moving parts. Advertisement Hickey also said that Gore's changeup — the pitch he throws least often, and never to lefties — could be just as effective as his slider and sharp curveball, his out pitch for righties. Batters are hitting .198 off Gore's curve and .140 off his slider, but .292 against the change. 'The curveball's really sexy and he gets swing-and-miss and that's great, but I tell him all the time that he could pitch a whole entire ballgame with a fastball and a changeup,' Hickey said. 'It's that good. When it's on and he's throwing it with conviction, it's a swing-and-miss pitch every bit as much as the curveball is, if not more.' It's always good to have a high-quality pitch in reserve. For now, though, Gore is mastering a mix that works, and he's never been better. 'I think it's just understanding who I am, where things perform the best, pitch-wise,' he said. 'I have a very clear idea of what the best approach is for me, and I think that's why I'm pitching better, because I (know): 'If I do this, I'm going to have success.' And that's a good place to be.' There used to be a bunch of possible World Series matchups like the one we're seeing in the NBA Finals between Oklahoma City and Indiana. While the Thunder won a championship as the Seattle Supersonics and the Pacers won three ABA crowns, neither franchise, in its current iteration, has won an NBA title. Since the 2000s began, the Arizona Diamondbacks, Anaheim (now Los Angeles) Angels, Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals and Texas Rangers have all won their first World Series. That leaves us with just three teams in each league that have never won it all in their current location: the (Don't Call Us West Sacramento) Athletics, Seattle Mariners and Tampa Bay Rays in the American League, and the Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres in the National League. The last World Series matchup in which neither franchise had ever won — in any city — was in 1980, when the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Kansas City Royals. Since then, three World Series have matched winless cities: 1992, Toronto vs. Atlanta; 2002, Anaheim vs. San Francisco; and 2010, Texas vs. San Francisco. (The Braves and Giants had won elsewhere, of course, but the Rangers descended from the hapless second version of the Washington Senators.) Advertisement As for the current possibilities, well, don't bet on the A's and Rockies getting together in late October. But the Mariners are one game under .500, and the Rays, Brewers and Padres entered the weekend with winning records. So we're telling you there's a chance. On Saturday at Fenway Park, when the Red Sox host the Yankees, some 350 fans in the bleachers won't be wearing team colors. They'll be wearing orange to raise awareness for multiple sclerosis as part of a group called MS4MS: Mission Stadiums for Multiple Sclerosis. A portion of the ticket proceeds will go to MS research and to support families impacted by the disease. Gus Quattlebaum, the Red Sox's vice president for scouting development and integration, will also host a charity golf event on Monday in Belmont, Mass. A post shared by Gus Quattlebaum (@egqiv) Quattlebaum, who was diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 2021, has been scouting for 27 seasons, first with the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles before his two-decade tenure with Boston. Building off a recent interview with Matt Hannaford's Most Valuable Agent podcast, Quattlebaum shares five insights on prospect evaluation with Sliders. 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But, again, it's what is their environment, what have they been exposed to whether it's nutrition or training? But if they're a good athlete, that will always catch our attention, because the athletes are more apt to repeat and figure it out.' We're talking about practice: 'It's where you can see behind the scenes: How do they interact with their teammates, how do they interact with their coaches, what kind of worker are they? That's a huge part of the process as we're digging deeper on players. A lot of times the games are the least relevant, especially in the regular season when they're the guy and (teams) don't pitch to them, it's hard.' Shake it off: 'Body language can be deceiving. Yes, it can be a signal to follow a little more closely, but I think it can be misleading. We've seen plenty of athletes who've been world champions that may not show the best body language, but they were absolute gamers. It's more important to see how they respond in the next moment or the next pitch or the next play.' Advertisement Be your own advocate: 'Sometimes when it's just a player (reaching out) himself, as opposed to a parent or representation you don't know, I think it's somewhat refreshing. It shows fearlessness, being vulnerable, putting yourself out there. I think it says something about someone. And just taking ownership — we're in a culture where everyone has things done for them now. You can't do that with ChatGPT. I guess you could, but I'd rather hear from the person themself.' One of baseball's weird scoring quirks is that an error by the pitcher can cause a run to be unearned. You would think that the pitcher, having made the mistake himself, should be penalized. But fielding the position, apparently, is not part of pitching. That brings me to Sunday's Grid, which asked for a Seattle Mariners pitcher with an ERA of 3.00 or lower in a season. For anything Mariners, I flash back to 1999, when I covered the team for the old Seattle Post-Intelligencer. There were legends everywhere: Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martínez and Alex Rodriguez; Lou Piniella, Pat Gillick and Dave Niehaus. But none of them pitched. Despite a midseason move from an indoor bandbox with turf to an outdoor pitcher's park with grass (and an umbrella-like rolling roof), the 1999 Mariners had just one pitcher with an ERA under 3.00: rookie Aaron Scheffer, at 1.93 in four games. The last came on June 20 in Cleveland against a fearsome Indians lineup that would score 1,009 runs that season, second all time to the 1936 Yankees. Scheffer began the final inning of his MLB career with a walk, a throwing error and a hit-by-pitch. After a sacrifice fly, another walk, another sac fly and two singles, Scheffer was charged with four runs. Had those runs been earned, Scheffer's ERA would have swollen to 9.64. Instead, he's frozen forever with a slim ERA — and a useful tidbit for the theater of the obscure known as the Immaculate Grid. This season marks 30 years of broadcasting for Mark Grant, a former pitcher for six teams, most notably the San Diego Padres. Grant, who partners with Don Orsillo to make Padres telecasts among the best in the game, has always been a natural on camera. Before a game in Montreal in 1989, Padres broadcaster Dave Campbell asked Grant to be his pregame guest. Instead of a standard interview, though, Campbell suggested that Grant perform the umpire impressions that always entertained the team. Advertisement 'Just being a clown,' Grant recalled recently. 'I became friends with umpires, especially back in the day with fewer teams and you'd see a lot of the same guys. They thought it was pretty funny.' Grant did spot-on imitations of John Kibler, Eric Gregg, Frank Pulli, John McSherry and Dutch Rennert, and figured that was that. Then 'This Week In Baseball' aired the segment, and now, in the social media age, it's often widely shared without notice. 'It's funny because, through time, it kind of goes viral,' Grant said. 'Like it has its moments where it's silent for a while, then all of a sudden it'll show up again.' All five umpires Grant mimicked are gone now, but Grant's tribute — delivered with infectious glee — keeps their mannerisms alive. (Top photo of MacKenzie Gore: Adam Hunger / Getty Images)
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New York Post
4 hours ago
- New York Post
Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. frustrated with nagging injury issues: ‘I was very upset'
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jazz Chisholm Jr. appears to have dodged another bullet on the injury front, but the mounting number of nagging issues is giving him a headache. The Yankees third baseman was out of Thursday's lineup against the Royals after leaving Wednesday's game in the fifth inning with left groin tightness. He took pregame grounders at third base and thought he would be available off the bench for the 1-0 win, but the training staff had him as 'emergency only,' manager Aaron Boone said after the game. 'I would expect him to either start or at least be a player off the bench [on Friday],' Boone said. Still, Chisholm believes that coming out of the game when he did Wednesday allowed him to avoid a more serious injury. But it was the second straight game he had to leave early — Tuesday's was less avoidable as he had neck tightness from colliding with Maikel Garcia's knee on a dive into third base — after missing all of May with an oblique strain. Chisholm has landed on the injured list at least once in each of his past five seasons after breaking into the big leagues in 2020. Jazz Chisholm Jr., who did not play in the Yankees' win over the Royals on Thursday, looks at his thumb after he injured it while stealing third in the sixth inning of their win on Tuesday. AP 'I was very upset [Wednesday],' Chisholm said. 'That's [five] seasons in a row, more than [five] injuries in the last [five] seasons. So it kind of sucks, and it's frustrating. And I feel like I do everything the right way. I have trainers on and off the field. I get massages on and off the field. Healthy diet, chef, everything you can possibly do off the field, I feel like I do. 'So it kind of gets frustrating, especially when you think you've prepared so well for a game and you go in there feeling good, feeling loose and something like that happens. But it's part of it.' 'So it's just a little bit frustrating when you keep getting hurt when you feel like you're doing everything in your power to stay on the field. As a kid, I might stay up a little bit later and not hydrate my body as well. But as an adult, I feel like I've understood it, six seasons in now. I drink eight bottles of water a day. Literally, all I do is drink water all day. I take all my supplements, everything. Jazz Chisholm Jr. watches his bunt attempt go foul during during the Yankees' win over the Royals on Tuesday. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect In a change of plans, Giancarlo Stanton played a third straight rehab game Thursday night with Double-A Somerset, going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. Boone said the Yankees still had not decided what would come next for the DH, including whether he might join them in Boston this weekend, though he seems unlikely to be activated Friday after playing three straight days. The Yankees also released left-hander Brandon Leibrandt from his minor league contract so he could sign with the CTBC Brothers Baseball Club in the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The 32-year-old had pitched to a 2.85 ERA in 10 games (nine starts) at SWB.
